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...Eagles raced out to an early lead two and a half minutes into the game when Michelle Labonge flicked a shot up into the air from near-point-blank range. Milhollin tried to block it with her hand, but the ball rolled off her into the goal...
...hover around Somalia. There is, of course, the big dark ghost of Vietnam, that formative evil myth of Clinton's generation. That war, like the Somalia conflict, was dominated by images injected into the American psyche -- the Viet Cong in a plaid shirt being shot in the head point-blank by Saigon's police chief during the Tet offensive, for example. The experience of Vietnam issues its warnings ("quagmire" and so on), but strangely, Bill Clinton the old war resister last week used much the same rhetoric of steadfastness and honor that Lyndon Johnson used when explaining another escalation...
...nearly went into receivership. Its horrendously underfunded educational system has been the subject of a lawsuit challenging unfair state educational aid formulas. The state was willing to resist calls to invest more in Hartford's crumbling educational infrastructure, but now is all too happy to jump in with a blank check to attract a football team. Is this prudent government, or just sports mania addling the already small brains of public officials...
Stolen street signs may look good on blank walls, but students who steal them threaten the safety of motorists and pedestrians in Cambridge, says Frank T. Pasquarello, public information officer for the Cambridge Police Department...
...John Kelly (David Caruso), a red-haired department veteran going through a painful divorce, and Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), his hotheaded, battle-fatigued partner. Some of Bochco's devices have become too facile and familiar (the shaky, hand-held camera; a major character who takes six slugs at point-blank range and survives miraculously the following week). But his storytelling skills have never been sharper, and his favorite theme -- the clash between institutions and people, between the law and justice -- has never been dramatized at a higher, more compelling pitch...