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Dilfer led the Bucs on scoring drives of 63 and 90 yards following Hardy Nickerson's block of Ryan Longwell's 47-yard field goal attempt in the third quarter...
Dallas (3-2), which beat Philadelphia when the Eagles bungled a last-second field goal attempt, almost tied it. But right tackle Erik Williams could not get set after Troy Aikman's completion to the Giants 17, forcing a 10-second penalty, allowing the clock...
...opportunity for equity" among the city's schools, the parents went to court and took to the streets. After a week of rancorous meetings, the two sides struck a deal last Thursday that reinstated the teacher, Lauren Zangara, and returned the parents' money--but barred them from any future attempt to pay faculty salaries. The city "will allow parents to make valuable contributions to their schools," Crew said, "within appropriate limits...
Promise Keepers declares it has no political agenda. Nevertheless, it makes no attempt to hide its allies on the religious right. As early as 1992, when the group was without a constituency or a mailing list, it received $10,000 in critical assistance from James Dobson, a psychologist and Christian activist who produces the most widely heard Christian daily radio program and is closely allied with the influential religious right Family Research Council lobby in Washington. Since then, Dobson has given Promise Keepers strategic publicity on his radio show, has spoken at a 1993 Promise Keepers rally in Boulder, Colo...
JERUSALEM: Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to ride out the crisis sparked by Mossad's botched assassination attempt on a Hamas leader in Jordan. Hamas itself is buoyant. The real loser from the incident appears to be Yasser Arafat. As the hapless Mossad hit men returned home Monday, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin ? released as part of the same deal ? was welcomed in Gaza by tens of thousands of Palestinians. Arafat now has either to seek coexistence with Hamas ? and earn the ire of Israel and the U.S.? or to confront an adversary growing in power and influence. ?Arafat?s room for maneuver...