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Junior defender Kelly Morrison wipes away the tears that have welled up in her eyes as they slide down her sunburnt skin. Junior Sarah Downing drags her stick along the grass. And there at the end of the bench, alone, eyes closed, in a crouch, is Co-Captain Liz Berkery...
Each morning the Iraqi artillery begin to find their targets. Deep in the standing reeds where the gunners cannot easily find them, black-robed women tend their children and few remaining buffalo in tiny makeshift clearings, while men, armed with old AK-47 assault rifles, crouch in hidden blinds along the waterways, waiting for Iraqi patrols. Only at nightfall, when the government troops return to their bases, can the men creep back to their families to sleep...
...Jimmy Carter criticized detente and claimed he would drive harder bargains with Leonid Brezhnev than Gerald Ford had done. Ronald Reagan, who was contesting the Republican nomination, said much the same thing, only more vociferously. Going into a defensive crouch, Ford passed up a chance for a strategic-arms pact that year and may have cost himself the election...
Blues To Be Constitutional--by Stanley Crouch, formerly of the Village Voice, and author of Notes of a Hanging Judge. Emerson Hall, Room...
...textbook case of crisis mismanagement. Hit by hundreds of lawsuits and a federal probe into the safety of its silicone breast implants, Dow Corning spent much of the past year hunkered down in a defensive crouch -- stalling investigators, sitting on evidence and minimizing the complaints of women who said the devices caused them pain, disfigurement and serious autoimmune disorders. By the time the Food and Drug Administration called for a ban on the implants last month, Dow Corning's health and safety problem mushroomed into a public relations disaster...