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Dartmouth (2-0, 1-0) kept pace with the Lions, getting past Lehigh 21-14. Thanks to its exciting 24-22 defeat of Penn (1-1, 0-1) the week before, the Big Green has matched its 2-0 start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gridders Even Record at 1-1 | 10/3/1996 | See Source »

...report he wrote became a seminal document in America's escalation of the war: "The situation in Vietnam is deteriorating, and without new U.S. action defeat appears inevitable...There is still time to turn it around, but not much...The international prestige of the U.S. and a substantial part of our influence are directly at risk." And so a new policy, dubbed by Bundy "sustained reprisal," was born. "Well," Johnson said, "they made a believer out of you, didn't they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: MCGEORGE BUNDY, 1919-1996 | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat the initiatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW HANDS-OFF NURSING | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...obvious that the campaign to defeat Question 1 will be based on scare tactics and outrageous statements. I, for one, have read the proposed law and support it. It will prohibit in most instances the use of certain cruel traps, but it does not ban trapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wildlife Protection Act is Warranted | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

Down 0-2 and facing defeat, Harvard captured the momentum by winning a tough third set, 17-15. The Crimson then squeezed out a 15-13 victory in the fourth set before finally putting away a disheartened Radford squad 15-8 in the final frame...

Author: By Joseph W. Lind, | Title: Women's Spikers Finish 1-2 at Georgetown Invitational | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

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