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What started out as a pitchers' duel became a home run battle, as the Harvard men's baseball team defeated the Holy Cross Crusaders, 4-2, yesterday at Soldiers Field...
...Guard fared no better than other Iraqi units. Not only was allied air power unchallenged and decisive; U.S. M1A1 tanks proved superior in maneuverability and firepower to Iraq's best, the Soviet-built T-72s. One correspondent witnessed a duel between an M1A1 and a T-72. When they sighted each other, the American tank backed up, outside the T-72's range. The Iraqi tank fired a round that fell short. The M1A1 fired its longer-range cannon, scoring a direct hit that put the Iraqi tank out of action, then promptly swiveled and went looking for another victim...
...Marine was killed and five others were wounded yesterday in an artillery duel across the border, the U.S. command reported. Twenty Americans have been killed in action in Operation Desert Storm, 30 are listed as missing and nine as prisoners...
...Punter's earlier heroics, however, that provided the most excitement of the meet. In the meet's first race of the day, the mile, Punter locked in a duel with Northeastern's Dino DiBiaso that wasn't settled until the home stretch, Punter put on a late surge to cross the tape in a 4:16.20, just 0.03 seconds ahead of DiBiaso...
Angry knots of buzz-cut skinheads and helmeted police circled each other warily in the halls of Oregon's Multnomah County courthouse last week. Close by, in a marble-pillared courtroom hidden behind security gates, two men stood before a civil court judge and began a legal duel that involved an unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will...