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...Harvard, which has traditionally had trouble in the narrow confines of Beantown's sports asylum, the Garden is far from wide-open Bright Center--where the Crimson owns a 11-2-1 record. Therefore, to prepare for tonight's ice surface--which is 25 feet shorter and seven feet narrower than Bright (not to mention the snail's pace of the Garden ice)--Tomassoni has been shuttling his squad to smaller rinks all over Boston...
...Most experts in Washington and other capitals say Saddam may be able to hang on, at least for a while, because he has so ruthlessly eliminated his internal rivals. But there was speculation that Saddam might flee. At week's end there were rumors that he might seek political asylum in Algeria, although officials there denied...
Clarice Starling, FBI trainee, is one smart cookie, brighter and more acutely intuitive than the men in charge. Yet she treats them all -- bosses, bureaucrats, the occasional serial killer -- with an elaborate respect whose irony shows only at the cutting edges. When an asylum director sneers that Starling has wasted his time, she replies, "Yessir, but then I would've missed the pleasure of your company, sir." That second sir is the smooth stiletto...
Barre fled the city in a tank minutes before the insurgents stormed the presidential palace. He reportedly escaped into neighboring Kenya, where authorities said they would grant him temporary asylum...
...believe in the Moping Dog doctrine. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about the inconsistencies of human behavior: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...