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Caples forecasts Princeton, which finished second in the nation last year, as the team to beat. The Tigers did not graduate anyone from last year and boast goalie Gia Fruscione. Amy MacFarlane, who played on the Canadian national team and earned All-Ivy honors, Kathleen Kelly and Kirsty Hale all bolster Princeton, which is strong up the middle...
Colebrook, just 10 miles south of the Canadian border, is a town of 2,500 people, almost all of whom are friendly, almost all of whom are reserved. It is a town that pops up periodically in the national news: this is where Harry K. Thaw was captured after murdering Stanford White in 1906; this is where millionaire murderer Christopher Wilder killed himself in 1984 after being cornered by police; east of town in Dixville Notch is where the nation's first votes are cast every four years. Ordinarily, though, the biggest events in town are the Blessing...
Last week President Clinton, feeling the pressure of mounting public opinion, ventured into an area once declared off-limits by his Joint Chiefs. He announced that next month the U.S. will join Canadian-sponsored talks in Oslo on a worldwide ban of land mines. Clinton had been reluctant to go against the advice of the Pentagon, which says it still needs mines for defense reasons, but a highly visible campaign that included such figures as Princess Diana, General Norman Schwarzkopf and Elizabeth Dole persuaded the President to change his mind. A treaty is scheduled to be signed in Ottawa...
...Edwards, the church's PR director ? herself a convicted embezzler. Lyons' wife was arrested last month and charged with setting fire to the condo. Meanwhile the reverend, who may also be married to two other women, has enraged black morticians by allegedly taking kickbacks from the Loewen Group, a Canadian-owned funeral home chain...
Fights have already started to break out over the dwindling supply. Two weeks ago, hundreds of Canadian fishermen blockaded a British Columbia port for several days to keep an Alaskan ferry from leaving. The reason for their protest? Alaskan trawlers were sweeping up the salmon that spawn in Canada's rivers. Now the Canadians are threatening to do to the salmon runs of Washington State what U.S. fishermen have done to theirs...