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...Uncle George on a historic dash through Eastern Europe, trying to reach out and touch everyone, striving to bring down to personal terms his doctrine of homegrown political and economic freedoms and what they could mean for the burdened people of the Soviet bloc. He was consumed with the idea that the economic summit, held in Paris during the weekend, ought to give much of its attention to the stirrings in the long-troubled nations of the old empire...
...appalled that he turned the sentencing over to another jurist (Peters got two years) and leveled the loud opinion that by vouching for a witness in a case he had yet to hear, Giamatti had biased himself outrageously. George Palmer, a former state-appeals-court judge, and Samuel Dash, famed Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings, last week took the stand on Rose's behalf to endorse that view. They thought Dowd's 225- page finding read less like an investigator's report than a prosecutor's indictment...
Across a parcel of scorched landscape, a pair of male ground squirrels are enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time...
Scientists say senationalism has had the unfortunate result in the past of lifting the public's hopes, only to dash them when they are proven untrue...
...competition, Harvard sophomore Derrick Horner won the sprinting events with a 100-meter time of 11.04 seconds, and finished the 200-meter dash in 22.12 seconds...