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Tonight at Boston Garden, Harvard and Vermont won't be playing for nothing. They'll be playing for something, probably the biggest something in college hockey: a bid to the NCAA Tournament...
...report reveals that in 1986 Rome had an income of $57.3 million and expenses of $114 million. The biggest cost was $50.6 million to pay 2,315 employees. Since there is no pension fund, $7.3 million of operating expenses went to 885 retirees. Vatican Radio and publishing added an additional $21.5 million worth of red ink, counting salaries...
Turning their backs on the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire, Minnesota and South Dakota, candidates were whistling Dixie last week, jostling for advantage on the presidential campaign's biggest battleground. Dukakis, who easily won the Minnesota Democratic caucuses with 34% of the vote, concentrated on the South's urban areas and ethnic voters. Native Son Gore, who ignored Iowa and ran poorly in other Northern contests, finds himself playing catch-up with the better-known contenders. Richard Gephardt won big in the South Dakota primary (with 44% of the Democratic vote), but he trails the others in recent Southern...
...right here. I listen to it in the car." At Frank Roberts' barbershop on Main Street in High Point, however, the former preacher is hardly taken seriously. "Pat Robertson?" says Roberts. "We never hear the name." According to Roberts, the G.O.P. race is between Dole and Bush. "Dole's biggest asset is Liddy," say the barber. "She is absolutely better than he is. She ought to run." Some of the customers like Gore for his electability. But Barber Harvey Speaks is skeptical. Says he: "Jimmy Carter killed the chances for another Southern President...
...says Colombian Justice Minister Enrique Low Murtra, "it wouldn't be grown and produced here." U.S. officials counter that it is illegal production that gives rise to consumption. But such finger pointing, satisfying as it might be, is increasingly hollow. While the U.S. is without question the world's biggest market for narcotics, some of the drug-exporting countries are developing a taste for the goods. In Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, consumption of basuco, a low-quality coca derivative, has reached levels that frighten health experts...