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...September Hurricane Hugo slammed into the Carolina coast; October brought the San Francisco Bay earthquake. Last week the furies returned in a burst of tornadoes. Frigid air howled out of the Arctic to collide with record balmy weather pushing northward from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The unseasonable clash generated a hopscotching barrage of twisters through 14 states from Arkansas to New York that killed at least 30 people. Though the storms were briefer than Hugo, the whirling winds were stronger than the hurricane's (up to 250 m.p.h.), and the U.S. death toll was higher...
...last time the visiting team won the Harvard-Penn clash, Jimmy Carter was President. In 1980, the Crimson invaded Philadelphia and escaped with a 28-17 victory. Since then, it has been home rule...
...continues to lead the Ivy in scoring. Nick Ziadle (4-3--11) appears to be the only player who could catch Dechet on the last weekend, but Ziadle will need additional help from the Quaker defense to shut down the high-scoring Tiger when the two teams clash to close out the Ivy season...
...Santa Cruz concern for a possible survivor touched off a clash between citizens and police at the devastated Pacific Garden Mall. Betty Barnes and other workers at the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Co., a boutique coffee shop, ran out when the walls began to tumble, but one employee remained behind. "I heard a quick scream to my right, where she was," Barnes recalled. "I know she's in there." Friends of the missing woman held hands, weeping and calling out her name, as rescuers probed through the shambles. Finally convinced she could not have survived, they gave up late Tuesday...
...civic responsibility. Like the more intractable tensions of incorporating the best of capitalism while preserving socialism -- tensions that have arisen because of, rather than in spite of, Deng's economic reforms. Like everything about the ghost marriage and those who celebrate it. All this and more reflect the clash of modernity and tradition and the exquisite balancing acts required when a nation persists in pursuing contradictory notions of culture, economics and politics at the same time...