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DEFENSIVE LINE: The Bruins boast one of the most underrated defenses in the entire league. Overall, Brown has picked up or picked off the ball nine more times than its offese has given it away. The defensive line is the heart of the defense, which has given up an average of less than three yards per carry and an average of 10 points per game...
tine meetings." Walters was involved earlier this year in an effort to free the remaining U.S. hostages in Lebanon, but he does not discuss such matters. "It's like being in intelligence," he says. "If you boast of success, you can never repeat...
...sacks, with Smith recording five of those just last week. Princeton's Wing-T is much like the Multiflex that the Crimson sees everyday in practice, and that should help. Will have to get to Butler, if Harvard wants a low-scoring contest. Even DEFENSIVE LINE: The Tigers boast one of the most underrated defenses in the entire league. Overall, Princeton has picked up 19 turnovers, including six fumbles. Defensive tackle Jim Petrucci has recorded five sacks and could give the Crimson trouble today. Of note is the fact that Princeton has allowed only six points in the third quarter...
...swift and sure midair interception of the Achille Lauro hijackers by four Navy fighters provided the armed forces with a much needed victory to boast about. It answers "the cheap-shot artists who try to portray the military as not being able to tie their shoelaces," exulted Navy Secretary John Lehman. But the Navy's success at diverting a single civilian airliner is not likely to muffle a drumbeat for military reform that has been swelling throughout Washington. At a session with reporters last week, former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who chairs a presidential commission appointed to look...
Nevertheless, Llewellyn did boast that "the categories where Harvard came out number one [like overall marketing skills, oral and writing skills] were the most important...