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...Thursday in Wisconsin Chipman and Vastola showed their better sides in making the final 24 in high-quality fields of 55. Chipman's preliminary bout victories included a conquest of defending sabre national champion. Notre Dame's Mike Sullivan...
...pleased to read your strong support of "quiet, scholarly Union College" [Jan. 9], lately the victim of hockey coach Ned Harkness's most recent sports blitz. The college's president made his first error in hiring a man whose coaching history reads like a Nazi blueprint for conquest...
...experts at small talk, but it has resonances that outsiders cannot guess at. Using the common language of memory and observation, Zeman, 32, crowds a barren stage with children growing up, leaving, marrying and having children of their own, of a husband's ordeal by alcoholism and his conquest of it, of Emily's witnessing her small son being crushed by a truck. The true protagonists are pain, humor, fury, the terrors of aloneness, a remembrance of good sex past, and an abiding perception of love amid its ruins...
...With the conquest of Mecca eight years after the Hegira, Mohammed destroyed the idols and cleansed the sacred house of its pagan deities. He re-established it as a place of worship to God alone. Reverting it to its original use he could then perform the pilgrimage "hajj," setting an example for millions of his followers throughout the ages. All rituals of the pilgrimage are rich in traditions reflecting the religious actions of Abraham (Mohammed...
...euphoria are over." With those words, a World Health Organization official last week gloomily characterized the current state of man's long battle against an ancient scourge: malaria. As recently as 15 years ago, health authorities were confident that they were well on the way to the total conquest of malaria. The dread disease, which afflicted as many as 300 million people at a time in the 1940s, was being swept away by the clouds of DDT spray that killed the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. Now, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, malaria is again on the rampage...