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Sure, it was called back--but in the midst of the scoring drought Harvard has endured most of the year (Saturday marked the fourth of six games this year that the Crimson didn't score a touchdown), any kind of TD is notable...
None of this will mean anything if the Crimson defenders are unable to keep Dartmouth from taking control until probable starting signal-caller David Landau--recovering from a separated shoulder--has a chance to bring the Harvard offense out of its scoring drought...
...goods to run the conference, ranging from jet fuel to computer printouts, had to come from neighboring South Africa, a country whose racial policies were roundly and regularly condemned in conference speeches. Cost of the two-week affair: $30 million, about the same amount that Zimbabwe needs for drought relief...
...need to reaffirm to myself that our dilemma is not the result of high and riotous living -- that we are and always have been a plain, hard-working farm family. We've had a few health problems, none of which were very expensive, three or four really bad drought years that really set us back, perhaps some bad business decisions and maybe some management weakness. Actually we were not in bad shape until the years with the terrible interest rates and the grain embargo -- it seems in retrospect that was the real beginning of a long, painful decline to this...
Authorities blame a rash of fires this year on arson, severe summer drought and the seasonal mistral wind that has whipped flames across dry southern forests. After tour ing the area, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac proposed a two-year program to improve the region's ability to fight and prevent fires. But for much of the south, the proposal came too late...