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...pair of walks dancing off first and second and Harvard nursing a 3-0 lead. Brown helped himself out by flagging down a bouncer and flipping to Bauer to start another double play. After a four-run seventh (highlighted by Donnie Allard's two-run double) provided a cushion. Brownie wrapped up the shutout in short order in the final frame...
...momentarily under the pressure. At Borovets, Bulgaria, a second place in the G.S. would have won the Cup for Phil, but he wobbled in fifth behind Stenmark and the lanky, sandy-haired Zhirov, who won. A day later, a slalom win would have given Stenmark another five points to cushion his lead, but once more Zhirov won, and while a second place would again have wrapped it up for Phil, the wrong Mahre took second. Phil came in third behind his brother Steve. And so it was on to Laax, with the European press quoting Zhirov as saying that...
...hottest team, Yale will follow Maine into Bright Center tomorrow night. The Bulldogs are in the midst of a losing streak (including a 5-4 overtime loss to Maine last week) but their mid-season dash to the top of the Ivy pack has provided them with the cushion of a 7-7 league mark (5-0 in the Ivies...
...wake of the Great Depression and World War II. Like Gothic cathedrals, they rose gradually across Western Europe, in dedication to a lofty goal: to create more humane societies, in which a solicitous state not only shielded the old and the sick but guaranteed a living wage and a cushion against the hardships of unemployment. The result-cradle-to-grave economic protection far beyond anything available in the U.S.-became European social democracy's proudest achievement. That accomplishment is now undergoing a painful reassessment. No one is proposing to dismantle the welfare state. But throughout Western Europe there...
That reign is nearly over. Despite the cushion of the magazine's success, a certain nervousness hovers in the air in this very inbred, cloistered place. Several years ago, the staff was unsettled by reports that Shawn wanted to turn over some authority to a young man more admired by Shawn than by others around the premises. Shawn ended the uncertainty by posting a two-line notice on the board saying he intended to stay on a while. The editorship is his "as long as he feels he can do the job," says George J. Green, The New Yorker...