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Sure, Princeton looks light-years ahead of everyone, despite losing its quarterback. Yes, Dartmouth's Vanilla Thunder will contend this year with its solid coaching and recruiting...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: A Desperate Plea to the Powers That Be | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

Sure, Princeton looks light-years ahead of everyone, despite losing its quarterback. Yes, Dartmouth's Vanilla Thunder will contend this year with its solid coaching and recruiting...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: A Desperate Plea to the Powers That Be | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

Suing: Homeless person CRAIG BENEFIT enlisted the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union (MCLU) after he was arrested twice for begging in Harvard Square. The MCLU will contend that a state law prohibiting begging is unconstitutional...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: SUMMERTALK | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...least George Bush does not have to contend with the twin curses of double- digit interest rates and inflation that poisoned Jimmy Carter's 1980 re- election bid. Unfortunately for the President, the economic parallels with the last Democrat to occupy the White House begin to multiply after that. As Carter entered the final two months of his campaign, he faced a 7.5% unemployment rate. Bush is looking at 7.6%. In the fall of 1980, the nation's economy was dead in the water. Based on the latest round of indicators, so will it be for Bush, who finds himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spate of Bad Numbers | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

Human-rights organizations think otherwise; they contend that the sayarot shoot first and ask questions later. B'Tselem, one such group, maintains that only about half the Palestinians killed by the sayarot are armed. In a widely publicized incident, Jamal Rashid Ghanim, 23, was playing soccer in the West Bank town of Tulkarm when four undercover soldiers rushed him and, according to eyewitnesses, shot down the unarmed man in cold blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Force | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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