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This year Harvard was expected to contend for a second-straight Ivy title. It didn't, dropping three of its first four league games. Yale was expected to have problems. It did, losing its last four league games...
...alternative is to carry on as we are: aggressively and (if necessary) unilaterally supporting American interests and values around the world, arming a movement here, putting pressure on a dictatorship there, as J.F.K. put it, "to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Without an Evil Empire to contend with, the job becomes easier -- there is less need to support dictators in the name of anti- Communism -- but harder to justify. Why make the effort? Seventy years ago, Americans were not wildly enthusiastic about Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy. Whether a post-Soviet America will want to embrace...
Military sources insist such actions are fully justified and claim that Cherry (the West Bank unit) and Samson (the Gaza unit) have arrested dozens of leaders of the uprising. They contend that all their operations stay within the bounds of Israeli law. Palestinians, on the other hand, charge that the clandestine teams have been given a license to kill. Last month six Cherry men disguised as Arabs drove a van with West Bank plates into the Arab village of Yatta. When local Palestinians approached the car to identify the occupants, two of them were machine-gunned to death. Both victims...
...They contend [in the tax brief] that there is a more elaborate relationship with the University than they do to the MCAD," said Baker...
...probably too late, and Dukakis is probably too far behind to turn the election around on his own. He needs an outside event to open a window. Some Bush strategists contend that only a serious illness or injury to the Vice President could give Dukakis the edge. But something a bit less spectacular could probably provide the opportunity: a serious Bush stumble, an international embarrassment or a sudden stock-market bust...