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With two seconds remaining in Saturday's game against the Tigers and the score knotted at 8-8, Harvard had an opportunity to drown host Princeton and gain a shot at the Ivy title against the top-seeded Bruins...
...days in late May, the whole international art set converges on Venice, jams Harry's Bar and the Corte Sconta, and migrates from one lavish party to the next. Briefly the choruses of "interesting" drown out the arpeggios of the singing gondoliers. This preserves the idea that the Biennale has some kind of following outside the art world itself -- an illusion. For everyone then departs, leaving the festival in a state of utter torpor with three months...
...times, the seams showed through. There were a few noticeable miscues, and on songs like "Pressure," the keyboards and bass tended to drown out the vocals--something rare in a Joel performance...
...answer is yes, such a policy might ultimately prove as hostile to the development of democracy as have Africa's ruthless dictators. No government, freely elected or not, will survive long if Africa's evident destiny -- to drown in debt -- is not reversed, and that will require enormous assistance from abroad. With its current debt of $135 billion roughly equivalent to its gross national product and its debt-service obligations equal to half its export earnings, sub-Saharan Africa faces an intolerable situation that has produced instability and promises to breed more. If the West really wants to see democracy...
...become an annual ritual on the tranquil lakes of northern Wisconsin. As the sun sets behind the dense pines that surround Lake Nokomis, tribal drumbeats signal the start of the Chippewa spearfishing season. While the Indians steer their boats into the calm, dark waters, angry protesters try to drown out the drums with air horns, whistles and taunting choruses of songs with such lyrics as "Where have all the walleye gone...