Word: bombe
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This season, however, existence has become a bit more precarious for Harvard (7-11. 4-3 Ivy), and this weekend showed just how much the Crimson has come to depend on the downtown bomb...
...this was no ordinary dinner, no ordinary time. The date was Jan. 24, 1998, three days after an atom bomb named Monica was dropped on the capital. The hosts were Al and Tipper Gore; House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane were their guests. Washington was radioactive--the press was on a round-the-clock Clinton death watch--and there was private tension as well. A month before, Gephardt had delivered a scathing speech at Harvard, attacking Democrats who practice "the politics of small ideas" and replace compassion with "momentary calculation." Everyone knew whom he was talking about...
...Madeleine Albright sped through Europe last week, pushing the allies into an ultimatum that essentially orders Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic to sign an agreement on autonomy with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians within three weeks. If he doesn't, NATO formally warned him last Saturday that he will face bomb and missile attacks from the alliance's planes and ships. The fractious Albanian groups, including the hard-line guerrillas of the Kosovo Liberation Army (K.L.A.), are also on notice that they must do the same, though NATO is vague about how they will be punished if they...
...Serbs Thursday rejected a key provision of the peace plan -- a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo. "If the Serbs stick to that position, NATO may be forced eventually to bomb them into accepting peacekeeping troops," says Calabresi. The threat of force that made the two sides show up in Paris may yet be needed to persuade them to make nice...
Beam took freshman guard Andrew Gellert's cross-court pass on the right wing and launched a bomb from three feet behind the arc. He then took a late hit from charging Bears guard Travis Brown and added a free throw to open up a 73-58 lead and put an exclamation point on the weekend sweep...