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Sophomore forward Joey Yenne, Harvard's leading scorer on the season (11G, 4A), assumed the bulk of the offensive burden left in Totman's absence. Yenne came out strong, netting a hat trick in the Crimson's second game, a 7-1 route over Vermont...
...Americans have blessed this idea because they see it as a means of addressing the issue of burden-sharing. Washington has long complained about Europe's limited defense spending and the state of its military preparedness, and they see this as a separate force, but under the aegis of NATO, that will spur Europeans to raise their spending and increase their capability in areas like transport and intelligence. Not just fighting ability, but also peacekeeping. European defense ministers have to fight battles in their own cabinets for greater defense spending, and the fact that they've signed up for concrete...
...polarizing and interminable, with disputed facts and plenty of lawyers. Elder statesmen James Baker and Warren Christopher, brought in as recount "observers," held dueling press conferences, like Cochrans and Ramsays. In battles like this, television news is a better divider than uniter: its formats, from Hardball to Burden of Proof, are about opposition. A constitutional crisis became electotainment...
...loss of Shep Harder between the pipes also adds another burden to the shoulders of a back line that lost its top three defensemen. Netminder Jason Lefevre does not have a wealth of on-the-job experience in goal, but performed well in his five starts last season...
...found somewhere in a lit theory text, judging by the five representatives featured in the 19th Lois Foster Exhibition of Boston Area Artists. The artists are obsessed with materialism-teddy bears, floppy bunny rabbits, handkerchiefs, dresses, shirt pockets and other everyday objects take on a tremendous theoretical burden. Artists Yukiko Nakamura, Colleen Kiely, Juliann Cydylo, Jocelyn Lee and Amy Podmore expect us to appreciate all the tired old postmodern themes, like the redefinition of gender through art and the importance of objects in defining identity...