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...board. He never looked back, and Harvard picked up a critical league win on a day when a league leader faltered. The Crimson star took the ball 74 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage, giving Harvard (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) all the cushion it would need in shutting out Dartmouth (1-6, 0-3 Ivy) by a 28-0 margin in front of 2,028 cold and wet fans in Hanover, N.H. The Crimson struck again on its third possession, with freshman Mike Clarke forcing a fumble with a vicious hit on Phil Galligan...
...trade in nuclear and missile program components - now being debated by the U.S., Europe, Russia and China, Tehran will almost certainly ignore these measures. And even if stiffer economic sanctions were to be adopted, Western diplomats acknowledge that Iran's windfall oil profits would cushion the impact...
...high point of the tour. The stage was a plastic-covered gymnasium floor, with headmaster Yoshio Shinohara's office standing in as green room. "I feel Australia is very close to my heart," says Shinohara, pointing out a Melbourne tea towel, kangaroo ashtray and koala-adorned sheepskin cushion?legacies of previous student exchanges...
While the Ford and Carter administrations worked hard to cushion the falling dominoes, the Asian dominoes moved quickly to save themselves by buttressing our power. We can't expect to be as lucky with the denizens of the gulf region. And we certainly wouldn't make our luck by staying the course and hiding behind Bush's fears of Middle East dominoes. We need him to unstrap America's still muscular diplomacy to seed the antiterrorist soil within Iraq, to structure a regional peace among states that cringe from regional war, to blunt the disasters of chaos and defeat...
...first pushes the coffee table closer to the entertainment center, reducing the space between the three objects: me, the table, and the shelving. Now he drags a chair from the kitchen. He places this near my head. From the couch he brings one of the three large cushions that sit upright. He stands the cushion up against the seat of the chair. Bringing another chair from the kitchen, he places it, with a couch cushion soon resting against it, at my feet. He has effectively eliminated me from his view. My view is now limited to the ceiling above...