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Senior co-captain Elizabeth Proudfit sandwiched a pair of clutch three-pointers around two George Washington free throws to pull Harvard within striking distance...
...think our weakness is that we are weak and native. When it comes down to the pressure situations I expect that those freshman will step up and rise to the occasion. I swam very slow all throughout the season but came up with my best times in the clutch last year...
What we have here are two mutually reinforcing strains of paranoia. On one hand, blacks are so suspicious of whites that many seriously believe aids is a genocidal plague cooked up by the cia. That is the flip side of the fear that makes many white women clutch their purses when a black man in a business suit gets on the elevator. Perhaps because of their minority status, most blacks who live with these grim realities have learned to keep their fears in perspective most of the time. They know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves...
...than five weeks of shuttle diplomacy in a bid to bring peace to the Balkans had sapped him of the nervous energy that usually suffuses his ample frame. But if the sparks were not exactly flying off Holbrooke, the news he brought to Washington was electrifying enough. As a clutch of State Department officials peered over his shoulder, he unfolded a map of Bosnia atop Christopher's desk, took out a ball-point pen and drew a line running from the northern border town of Dvor south to Sanski Most, then snaking southwest to the city of Jajce...
...cabdriver. This year she expects to do better. But even with Terri working six-day weeks and her husband Philip driving a cab all seven days, they still can't scrape together a down payment on a house. Terri's 1985 Pontiac needs radiator and clutch work; Philip is still paying $160 a month on a 14-year-old Mazda pickup. "I'm making less money than ever in my whole life, and I'm working more," Terri says. "I have no life. The only thing that holds me together is my children. But I can't even afford...