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Pointing to "the multitude of physical and mental abilities" shown by his entrymates in their conquest of the Yard Plate, Strong asserted that Grays "can crush the competition in any...sport...
...facilitate the return of properties nationalized by the communists to their former owners. The issue is also under debate in Poland and what was East Germany. But restitution will be expensive; Hungary estimates the cost at about $1.5 billion. And the process promises to lead to a crush of legal disputes as successive owners lay claim to the same piece of property. In the end, disentangling the Communist Party from its assets could prove to be far more difficult than mounting the revolutions that toppled its leaders...
...Kenyans received such a shock, when 271 teenage girls were attacked during a rampage by dozens of their male classmates at St. Kizito, a boarding school in central Kenya. Chased into a corner of the dormitory where they were trying to hide, 19 girls died of suffocation in the crush. Doctors say another 71 were raped. Last week 29 boys ages 14 to 18 were charged with manslaughter; two were also charged with rape...
...offer beguiling short stories this season. The long-neglected art of yarn spinning is robust again, in three fine collections. Joan Chase's Bonneville Blue (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 226 pages; $16.95) contains 11 poignant tales. In one of the finest, Elderberries and Souls, the adolescent narrator recalls a passionate crush on her stepuncle: "I was smelling his cotton shirt, smoke and starch, and his soul, as if that, too, were a thing to be smelled." But a sudden glimpse of his unstable temper makes her realize how inexperienced she is in the ways of the world and propels her into...
...fade away -- just as the old debate over TV coverage of House and Senate deliberations has disappeared now that C-SPAN is a permanent fixture. One of the lessons of the media age is that the TV juggernaut is hard to reverse. But it should not be permitted to crush constitutional rights as it rolls along...