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Jachym scored two more goals in overtime. Harvard pulled within one when freshman Alan Bengtzen scored with two minutes remaining. The Crimson brought Dupuis out of net into and into the field for the final seconds in a desperate charge to the Hartford net, but it was to no avail...
Harbury then returned to Washington to push for sanctions against the Guatemalan government, but to no avail. During another hunger strike in Washington, D.C. in 1995, Rep. Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.) told Harbury that a Guatemalan General on the CIA's payroll ordered Everardo's execution...
...Clinton, in the usual spray of condolences, may have hit the mark when he called the suicides "so isolated that they can create a world for themselves that may justify that kind of thing." Create it they had. And each had taken his hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity to attain the afterlife. "We fully desire, expect, and look forward to boarding a spacecraft from the Next Level very soon (in our physical bodies)," reads the "Heaven's Gate" website. "Hale-Bopp's approach is the "marker' we've been waiting...
...exorbitant cost of scrambling their programs has led cable operators to restrict adult sex programs to airtimes between 10p.m. and 6a.m only. Playboy and Spice Entertainment argued that cable customers concerned about the programming can request that cable companies block individual channels from reaching their homes, but to no avail. The Supreme Court has not finished with the prickly issue of indecency and free speech. Coming up next: a ruling on the constitutionality of the Communications Decency Act, a law signed by President Clinton last year that would make it a criminal offense to broadcast explicit materials over the Internet...
Prestifilippo notched a career-high 39 saves, but it was to no avail, as the Clarkson offensive juggernaut continued to unleash shot after shot...