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...awkward but cerebral Bernie Kosar joined the team; for the next nine years he proved the value of substance over style, and three times lead the team within a win of the Super Bowl. In the '87 AFC Championship at Denver, as Earnest Byner appeared to be scoring the tying touchdown, my dad and I leapt in unison, elated - only to fall to earth and see that Byner had fumbled, and the season was over. Many fathers and sons share triumphant memories, and we too have our share. But we also have the Byner fumble, and though it continues...
...going to be easy, and it won't take days or weeks or even months. But it has begun in earnest. And I have no doubts of the final outcome - full cooperation with the Hague tribunal and the handing over of Milosevic. But not quite...
...reading period draws to a close, the pressure begin to build in earnest. Slowly the cold but humid Harvard air becomes oppressive, thick and heavy. I become Ed Harris in The Abyss, breathing a slurry of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Each breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water...
Person of the Week GAME TIME After a time-out for post-Sept. 11 grieving, the 2002 U.S. political season finally began in earnest when Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle kicked off a Democratic offensive against President George W. Bush's economic policies. Can Daschle convince Americans that war isn't enough...
...Many of Kabila's officers had begun to express frustration over the war, which began in earnest early in 1997 when Kabila turned on those who'd brought him to power. The former guerrilla leader tapped into resentment of his "outsider" regime in Kinshasa by initiating a pogrom against Rwandan Tutsis - the very army that had transformed him from a minor regional insurgent into the president. Rwanda had installed Kabila precisely because Mobutu had provided shelter to the Hutu genocidaires who had killed a million of their Tutsi countrymen in 1994, and Kabila had failed to deliver on promises...