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Facing a weaker Williams squad, the Crimson took advantage of the home courts of the Hemingway Gymnasium and dominated the match 9-0. The victory allowed the defending national champions to bolster their season record to 4-0 overall, 1-0 in the Ivy League...
...media spotlight. But Shipp, in an intensely charged moment, said: "I'm doing this for my conscience and my peace of mind. I will not have the blood of Nicole on Ron Shipp. I can sleep at night, unlike a lot of others." While Shipp's testimony appears to bolster the prosecution, some legal experts said that by allowing dreams to enter the courtroom, Judge Lance Ito had opened up an opportunity for the defense to appeal a guilty verdict. "I think it's safe to say that we don't usually try people based on dreams," said Laurie Levenson...
...fellowship was created with funds donated to bolster the endowment of the existing Fiske and de Jersey scholarships over the years. Rather than add an additional year to one of the programs, the committee which oversees the fellowships decided to create a third award...
...worked overtime to arrange an international peso-rescue package of as much as $13 billion, including private bank loans and $7 billion in credits from the U.S. and < Canada. That's in addition to a $6 billion currency swap fund that the U.S. already had in place to bolster Mexico in any currency crunch. News of that deal helped the peso move back upward and halted the accompanying downward swoop of the Mexican stock market...
...also said he'd ask Congress for anemergency increase in this year's defense budgetto pay for unscheduled deployments to Haiti and Kuwait -- the chief reasons cited by military brass in acknowledging an eroding preparedness. The package is designed to go in tandem with his decision last month to bolster the "quality of life" for military families, including a 2 percent pay raise. Far from making Pentagon coffers flush,TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompsonpoints out, Clinton's new move simply takes a bite out of a projected $40 billion budget shortfall. "It reduces the pain, but it does...