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...Beset by a rash of injuries and a sluggish start to the season, the Crimson hopes to build momentum entering the Ivy schedule...
...while the Crimson had trouble in the midfield, its attack was beset by its own problem...
...massive exodus from Zimbabwe is both symptom and cause of the country's decline. Beset by drought and food shortages, runaway inflation and 80% unemployment, Zimbabwe's economy is just two-thirds the size it was in 1999. The country's best and brightest - medics, accountants, teachers, engineers and other skilled workers - are leaving in droves. The U.S. State Department says that 1,200 doctors trained in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, but by 2001, only 360 remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much...
DIED. JAMES CALLAGHAN, 92, British Prime Minister whose mild manners came to be viewed as complacency during his three-year tenure, which was beset by a series of labor strikes in the late 1970s, and helped usher rival Margaret Thatcher into office; in East Sussex, south of London...
...band of traveling minstrels, and a stylishly plump court lady wears an eclectic silk outfit, remarkably well preserved. The show comes at a fitting time. Today, inhabitants of the places that held these treasures tend to look back at the culture of their forbears as monolithic, and only now beset by tainting influences from abroad. But their ancestors knew differently. They managed their confusing times with grace and curiosity?and wandering among the pieces of what they left behind is a rare pleasure...