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While the B.C. game was a blow out, it "pointed out strengths and weaknesses of the team," Dahman said...
...people from Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), an incurable brain condition, may be linked to "mad cow disease", a bovine brain sickness that has been infecting British herds for the past decade. France, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal and the Netherlands announced the ban Thursday. The ban will result in a severe blow to British beef and dairy farmers. France called for a meeting yesterday of the European Union's veterinary committee to determine how to respond to what is potentially a Europe-wide threat. Britain's largest consumer organization warned today that the only way to avoid the cattle disease...
While Annenberg was hailed by administrators and some students as an improvement in the dining aesthetic, many first-years agree that the change from the Great Hall to a more spacious facility struck a major blow to socializing...
...burning houses, harass Serb residents who refuse to leave. Arson and looting took place in other Sarajevo suburbs, but not with the violence and intensity of the Grbavica transfer. The reunification of Sarajevo under Muslim Croat rule, as dictated by the Dayton peace agreement, came as a real blow to Bosnian Serbs. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says the Serbs are fleeing because they cannot live together with their enemies. However, Christopher is still committed to the provisions of the Dayton peace accord. "One of the reasons the United States took the risks and responsibility of leadership was to give...
DETROIT: In a blow to organized crime today, Federal agents arrested the boss and leaders of the Detroit Mafia. Seventeen people were indicted on 25 different charges alleging 30 years of murder plots, extortion and racketeering. The indictments came after a long government effort to "drive a stake through the heart" of the mob, following similar arrests in Boston, New Orleans, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Newark, N.J. and New York City. The alleged Mafia boss, Jack Tocco, was arrested this morning in Boca Raton, Fla. along with his brother Anthony and reputed second in command, Anthony Zerilli. "Here in Detroit...