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Freshman defenseman Brian McCormack set up Krayer's goal with a slap shot from the left side of the blue line. Stauber made the save, but the Minnesota defense couldn't clear out the puck...
...scholar on South Asian security issues: "A strong India could act as a regional stabilizer, and this would be in the U.S. interest. But an India that is a regional bully threatening China or Pakistan would not be in American interests." Until India makes its long-term intentions clear, the U.S. and other countries are likely to continue to prepare for either possibility...
...controversial field. Doctors have transplanted fetal organs into infants and used fetal cells to treat Parkinson's disease in adults. Right-to-life advocates object strongly to such procedures unless the fetus comes from a mother who has had a miscarriage. But to David's parents, the issue was clear- cut: only aborted fetuses were available, and without the transplanted cells their boy would have had virtually no chance of survival...
Such domestic pressure reinforces the Bush Administration's strategy: declining to put forth a made-in-Washington peace plan that Shamir would immediately reject, while allowing mounting diplomatic heat to force him to come up with his own proposal. The White House has made clear that it expects the Israeli leader to bring along some ideas when he sees Bush on April 6. At the same time, the Administration suggests modest concessions by both sides as first steps toward an eventual agreement. On Israel's part, such "confidence- building measures" would include releasing at least some Palestinians imprisoned during...
...Mita, is eager to launch a Communist Marshall Plan to deal with the bloc's $131 billion indebtedness -- a 60% increase in three years -- rung up by outmoded and mismanaged state industries. "An expensive irrelevance," snorted the Economist. Critics are wary of throwing money at Eastern Europe without a clear idea of what they should extract in return. Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wants any assistance to be met by "deliberate movement toward the adoption both of a free-pricing mechanism and of genuine freedom of political choice...