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...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's next game is Wednesday at UMass... Crimson defender Leelee Groome gave the coaching staff a scare when she went down with 25:39 left in regulation. Groome lay on the carpet a minute--being attended by trainer Meg O'Keefe--before hopping to her feet to remain in the game. Her injury was turf-related... Groome wore heavy sun-shade under her eyes despite the fact that most of Saturday's game was played under cloud-cover... Cornell had 10 penalty corners, Harvard had five...Katsias made seven saves... Harvard took 24 shots...
...time Gorbachev's jetliner touched down at Paris' Orly Airport, any damage to his composure was long forgotten. After the General Secretary and his wife strode down the gangway onto the red carpet, they were greeted by President Mitterrand. Gorbachev reviewed an honor guard, then sped off for the center of Paris in a 20-car cavalcade surrounded by 50 motorcycle police. Along his way, the Champs Elysees had been decked out with red hammer-and- sickle flags beside the French Tricolor...
Followed down a long corridor, heart pounding. Around a corner, over some brown carpet, into a little office. In the center was a computer terminal, no bigger than a portable TV. Moment of doubt. Everything so modest, so quiet. The terminal clacking casually. Could this contain the scourge of the world's moneybags, the thing that made Prime Ministers age and caused political parties to rise and fall...
...biggest obstacle the Crimson faces may be the Astroturf surface at Schoellkopf Field. The Crimson hasn't won on carpet since its 1981 trip to Ithaca...
Welch seems to believe that contact with the West, or at least with Britain, vitiated India's arts, and he proves the point all too insistently with a final roomful of tatty 19th century artifacts. The one exception is the Baroda carpet, a lavish if gaudy confection of pearls, rubies, emeralds, diamonds and glass beads sewn onto deerskin and silk. From its shimmering surface, the exotic images of the legendary India seem to glint anew...