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...hockey players and season ticket holders will have first crack this morning at the 1200 tickets for each of the playoff nights at the Garden allotted to the Harvard ticket office. After that, there should be 800-900 left for students, probably starting in the afternoon. You should call the ticket office at 9 a.m. for information. Also, there are plenty of tickets available at the Garden. There are no student discounts...
Major thoroughfares are not for sale, but Laredo is crosshatched with little-used road ways that end in creeks or ditches. Abutting businesses get first crack at the roads, which can be converted to other uses. The Missouri Pacific Railroad is interested in buying twelve streets on the west side for parking lots...
...reward for the warlord's head. When a group of Thai paramilitary troops set off to capture Khun Sa and cop the reward, they were ambushed by Shan mercenaries. The open clash on Thai soil enraged Bangkok, already under mounting pressure from both the U.S. and Australia to crack down on the heroin trade. Says a Western diplomat in Bangkok: "The Thais finally concluded it was not in their interest to allow Khun Sa to function in Thailand. The domestic and international costs became too high...
...strikes may have indicated a small crack in Harvard's traditionally firm control over its unions, but it did nothing to systematize union activity. Some unions--like the printers--have struck repeatedly. Others have repeatedly threatened to strike. Some--the police, in particular--have held bargaining session after bargaining session, dragging negotiations on for months. And a few have signed on the dotted line...
...Harvard men's tennis team surprised everyone earlier this month when they finished ninth in the ITCA National Team Championships in Los Angeles-- their first crack into the nation's top-ten rankings ever. Playing a major role in the Crimson's superior showing was senior ALEX SEAVER who, at the number-six slot, is playing as a full-time starter for the first time in his four years at Harvard...