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After Li's goal gave Harvard the lead, Brown didn't die. In the final 55 seconds the Bruins had two corner kicks and two penalty shots. Twice, the ball deflected off the post when it came out of a mob scuffing in front of the Harvard...
...vocations. There is some evidence to support that: the total number of seminarians worldwide has jumped from 62,000 to more than 92,000 during John Paul II's 12-year papacy. That is still far from adequate. Moreover, new recruits do not outnumber the priests who retire or die each year, but the net loss was down to 313 last year. "Overall the trend is positive," reported Archbishop Pio Laghi, head of the Vatican's Congregation for Catholic Education...
Today species are vanishing on a grand scale. There are 1,116 imperiled species on the list, an additional 3,600 candidate species behind them. Some will die out waiting to be listed. These numbers are only a pale reflection of a wider problem. In tropical rain forests, loss of habitat is pushing at least 20,000 species a year into extinction, according to Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson. If the U.S. is to influence policy overseas, it will be by dint of example, not rhetoric. Wealthy nations must check their own appetites before asking far greater sacrifices of poorer...
...wraps for most of the game, holdingquarterbacks Kevin Peck and Matt Brzica to fourcompletions for 25 yards. Sophomore cornerbackRobert Santos caught as many passes, two, as anyHarvard receiver. Linebacker Joe Gordian's 14tackles did nothing to harm his All-Americanhopes. But what Teevens called Harvard's "live bythe sword, die by the sword" philosophy ofconstant pressure has its drawbacks...
...explain Bob Kerrey? The junior Senator from Nebraska, whose personal valor was certified for all time when he lost a leg in Vietnam, is equally fearless wading through political minefields. Opposing a Senate resolution supporting George Bush's gulf policy, adopted 97-3, Kerrey declared, "No American should die in the Persian Gulf in order to hold down the price of gasoline." Impatient with the inadequacy and dithering of the budget debate, he predicted, "We will pass a budget that will reduce the deficit by $34 billion, the economy will continue to weaken, and the deficit will grow beyond...