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Ultimately, however, it was the strength of the Bison defense that dealt Harvard the disheartening defeat, as the Crimson was unable to maintain this level of play throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game by Game Breadown | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

Yale's losing streak continued to three straight on October 25. The game was a virtual repeat of the previous week's defeat by Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Game by Game Breadown | 11/26/1997 | See Source »

...produced in a place the size of a two-room apartment. "There's no way we can find and bomb them all," says the source. But where it suspects the weapons of mass destruction are being produced or stored, the Pentagon will try out prototype weapons designed to "defeat nuclear-biological-chemical threats before they can be used," as a 1995 report phrased it. One penetrating warhead burrows through earth and concrete before detonating; an incendiary warhead burns up biological and chemical agents before they can spew poison into the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Marshall lost a 17-14 heartbreaker at East Carolina--its sixth defeat in nine games. Still, as the players, coaches and boosters boarded the Southern Airways DC-9 in Greenville, N.C., there was the feeling of promise, as well as of escape from the winless seasons of '67 and '68 and a subsequent recruiting scandal that had got Marshall thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...featuring hyperyuppies Harry and Louise, who spent their evenings worrying over the Health Security Act), along with an amalgam of industry groups, is marshalling its forces once again, as if some socialist, Swedish-type system were about to land on these shores. It's girding to defeat several pending bills that would correct some marketplace excesses. A provision in one bill would ensure that a woman could have direct access to an obstetrician (a specialist, after all) throughout her pregnancy. Another would allow emergency care anytime a "prudent layperson" would consider it appropriate. Another would remove bonuses for doctors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANOTHER DOSE OF HARRY AND LOUISE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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