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...still the only person ever to try that jump in competition, and by week's end he had climbed from 11th to 7th place. Yagudin, whose coach said he was running a high fever, placed fifth at Nagano; only 17, he is already a force to contend with. China's Guo Zhengxin, eighth, also seems a potential star. Guo shot for two quadruples in the finals last week and landed one of them impressively...
...bombing campaign the Clinton Administration has in mind, critics contend, would neither bring compliance with the U.N. nor remove Saddam. The bombs would demolish all hope of more inspections but would not stop Saddam from rebuilding his germ factories, and that would just provoke another military confrontation later...
...reality, Harvard must convert on these, the lighter games on the Ivy slate, if it is to contend with the nationally-ranked Princeton Tigers for the league crown and the NCAA tournament's automatic...
Ages ago, when my husband and I wanted to start a family, we had the Rh factor, not infertility problems, to contend with. It was a pretty big deal back then. But we wanted four kids. What to do? Simple. Have one child biologically and adopt three. Who cares whom they look like or what color they are? My kids are now 30, 28, 25 and 22. To me, they're all my flesh and blood. I've never given a second thought to the fact that some are adopted. Ups and downs? Naturally. But I'm their...
...could also contend that the film's drawn-out weightiness, its sense of bleakness and numbing repetition, is a deliberate goal. After all, this is a film about the horrors of war and of persecution, and forcing the viewers to share in the deliberately dehumanizing environment forced upon the camps' victims could be--in theory--a powerful aesthetic effect...