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Coming off an Ivy League title winning season with eight of its eleven starters returning, expectations were high for the Crimson. With an experienced goalkeeper between the posts in Peter Albers, a skilled midfield led by senior captain Chris Wojcik, junior Kevin Silva, 1994 All-Ivy Honorable Mention selection T.J. Carella and highly touted freshman Armando Petruccelli, and scoring punch up front in the persons of Rich Wilmot and Will Kohler, the team appeared primed for another successful season...
...Eleven counting stations are set up representing each of the city's 11 wards. The vote of each candidate is sorted and separated by precinct. By tomorrow evening, an "Unofficial First Count" tallying the number one votes for each candidate will be posted...
Edited by Nabokov's son Dmitri, the omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...
...Singaporean investigators, Leeson, who was the general manager of futures trading for Britain's Barings bank in Singapore, wiped out some $1.38 billion of the bank's funds in Asian futures markets. The loss was more than the 232-year-old investment institution could cover. Leeson was charged with eleven counts of fraud and forgery. "One of the reasons for fleeing to Germany," says TIME's John Moody, "was an obvious fear of the kind of punishment he faced in Singapore. It must have been a very difficult decision to give up the extradition fight...
...state grant of $22 million for new facilities and programs, but she expects that could be "a one-shot deal." With domestic violence dropping off the screen, she has decided to talk about the council in terms of "homicide prevention," she says. "We don't know what 7-Eleven is going to be robbed next, or what car hijacked. But we do know which woman is going to be killed, and with enough resources, we can prevent...