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Melissa K. CrockerCrimsonFIELD DREAMS: The Harvard fieldhockey team has the talent to contend for an Ivytitle. Does it have the intangibles...
...tirade over U.S. missile strikes is equal parts bluster, envy and a little dog-wagging of his own. "On one level, he feels personally slighted about being out of the loop on the attack," says Quinn-Judge. "But like Clinton, Yeltsin has a domestic scandal of his own to contend with: his devaluation of the ruble. With the parliament calling for his resignation, a little burst of nationalist fury does not go amiss...
Armstrong must still contend with those ornery Baby Bells. Even if all 33 million households in neighborhoods that TCI serves were to buy AT&T local service, the company would remain shut out of two-thirds of the country's homes. Armstrong hopes to make inroads with a so-called fixed wireless system that AT&T is developing to deliver household service through cellular technology. But in the end, he acknowledges, as many as 25% of U.S. homes will remain beyond AT&T's reach--unless it can strike deals with the Bells and other local phone companies...
That has been enough to convince most dinosaur experts, but some paleontologists who specialize in birds didn't much like the theory. Both birds and dinosaurs, they contend, evolved from some older common ancestor. Any similarities between the two groups, they say, have to do with that parentage, and also with the fact that evolution can often produce the same features, even in utterly unrelated animals. Sharks and dolphins, for example, have comparable body shapes, though one is a fish and the other a mammal. Such disparate creatures as bats, birds and butterflies all have wings in common...
...being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait, "is the moral thing to do." And, the receivers contend, the wealthy are not only selfish but arrogant. "They're not used to losing debates," says state senator Cheryl Rivers, an architect...