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Eighteen months ago, the idea that the K.L.A. could be the agent for that kind of humiliating defeat would have been greeted with derision in Belgrade. No one's laughing now. In just over a year, the K.L.A. has transformed itself from a disorganized network of bandits into a presentable, if limited, guerrilla army. That army is a fraction of the size of the Yugoslav army, but it has all the classic guerrilla advantages: the loyalty of the population, an intimate knowledge of the terrain and a brutality that won its members the label of "terrorists" a year ago. Already...
Three Cambridge state representatives said yesterday they hope to defeat a measure raised by Governor A. Paul Cellucci to reinstate capital punishment in the commonwealth...
...cautiously optimistic that we will defeat the bill," Demakis said...
...level. Sometimes that team is special because it overcame seemingly insurmountable odds with sheer will and determination. Such was the case when our women's basketball team stunned Stanford in the first round of last year's NCAA tournament-the first No. 16 seed in the tournament ever to defeat a top seed in NCAA basketball history. But sometimes a team is special not because of one spectacular moment but because it has consistently dominated its competition for the entire season-a team so far ahead of the pack that it seems almost surreal...
Orange said he conceded defeat to the Harvardteam...