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...Monk made a clutch third-down catch in overtime. Chip Lohmiller hit the field goal to win the game. The Redskins were winners again...
Quaking: An inconsistent Harvard squad dropped a key Ivy League match to Penn Friday, as the Crimson fell apart in the clutch and lost in five games...
...blind; he's on the verge of eclipsing Lou Brock's all-time stolen-base record. Don't groove a pitch to Jose Canseco or Mark McGwire; the Bash Brothers will lose it over the far fence. Watch, and wince, as Dave Henderson or Carney Lansford gets the clutch hit. Scan the depth of the A's bench; almost any scrub could start on another team. Note the new recruits, just in time for the big games: slugger Harold Baines and spray hitter Willie McGee, an N.L. import who may win that league's batting title...
There was suddenly an enormous amount of talking -- peace talk, settlement talk, negotiation talk -- but most of it was just that, talk. Saddam Hussein, looking a little sweatier, issued a flurry of offers to negotiate, but his antics seemed intended mainly to avert a military showdown. A clutch of mediators led by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar set off on peacemaking missions, yet none carried much promise of success. In Washington, President Bush toned down his rhetoric and turned his attention to diplomacy, but said bluntly that he had no immediate hope for "fruitful negotiations." Despite...
...unpopular regime. Recent decisions to relax the government's two-year-old economic austerity program, lift martial law in Beijing and the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and tone down the ideological decibel level represent a modest victory for the pragmatic approach of retired patriarch Deng Xiaoping over a clutch of veteran hard- liners. Yet Deng, 85, remains locked in a paralyzing succession struggle that precludes any but the most cosmetic policy changes in the near future. "What we are seeing is the classic politics of the end of an era," says a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing. "Since the Emperor...