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TRACK Led by double Olympic medalist Rebecca Twigg and four-time world champion Connie Paraskevin-Young, the U.S. women will win their share of races against strong cyclists from France and Italy. There could be a great sprint battle between Marty Nothstein of the U.S. and Curt Harnett of Canada...
...Crimson survived a major scare in the ninth, yielding three runs in the bottom of the frame, before sophomore Frank Hogan retired Wildcat centerfielder Curt Connelly with the bases loaded to end the game...
...only player in this game with a level head is Old Faithful, Defender of the Faith Herself: Queen Elizabeth's statements from Buckingham Palace have been properly curt and a decided cut above the thrashing-about that occurs in the vat of mud that is our media...
...Naturalist (1966), onward, he has produced intense, lyrical works that seem suspended between contradictions--life and death, joy and grief, memory and loss. His imagery is radical, in the true, etymological sense of that word: "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/ Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/ Through living roots awaken in my head...
...this came NATO's air campaign against Bosnian Serb air defense installations and ammunition storage facilities. The full impact is yet to be assessed, but the targets were "severely reduced," in the U.S. Defense Department's curt reading after the bombing halt was extended indefinitely last week. Apparently crucial was a Sept. 10 strike on command-control and communications facilities around the Bosnian Serbs' stronghold of Banja Luka; several cruise missiles crippled the installations just as the Croatian-Bosnian offensive began in the northwest...