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Williams is paying for his journalistic sins. His weekly syndicated newspaper column was terminated last Friday. But the Bush Administration appears unfazed. Education Department officials called the contract "a permissible use of taxpayer funds." This despite two recent Government Accountability Office rulings that the Administration broke antipropaganda laws when it disguised promotional spots--on federal drug policy and the new Medicare prescription-drug law-- as TV-news segments. --By Perry Bacon...
...regular service. "Those of us who were in Vietnam in 1969 remember all the pronouncements about how good things were going," Scales says, recalling that Pentagon figures at that time showed retention numbers to be solid. "But in 1970 the whole thing collapsed, and the Army simply broke." Soldiers were deserting in droves, enlisted men were fragging their officers, and illegal drug use was skyrocketing...
Sophomore Kevin Du broke a scoreless tie five minutes into the third period, and netminder Dov Grumet-Morris recorded 27 saves to propel No. 12 Harvard to a 1-0 win over the No. 9 Big Red before a sellout crowd at Bright Hockey Center on Saturday night. The victory ends the Crimson’s six-game losing streak against Cornell (9-4-2, 5-2-1 ECAC), a skid that dated back...
...mired in a 1-for-17 slump on its power play and just one night removed from an uncharacteristically poor offensive performance in which its forwards generated little traffic in front—continued to swarm McKee’s net, and, 4:54 into the third period, finally broke through...
...Crimson failed to connect on another field goal for over five minutes, as the Big Green pulled out to a six-point lead, 21-15. Stehle broke the drought with a layup and later converted a three-point play to pull Harvard within four, but Dartmouth went on a 7-2 run over the final three minutes of the half to take a 31-22 advantage into the locker room...