Word: ens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Harvard (0-2 overall, 0-1 Ivy)ahead, 5-3, at intermission, Cornell (3-0, 1-0) applied tight defensive pressure and fought back on offense, netting five goals en route to a dramatic 8-7 victory over the slumping Crimson...
...Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.S. repel the invaders, but Saddam's ploy actually contributed to the success of the allied ground offensive. The battle provided U.S. military planners with their first opportunity to see how Iraq's troops operated against American mobile tactics. The Iraqis performed badly, surrendering en masse when the Marines counterattacked. "They showed us they couldn't handle combined operations," says a senior Pentagon official. "They maneuvered but couldn't work effectively as a unit." Postbattle inspection disclosed that Iraqi tanks and armored personnel carriers were in terrible shape. As General Norman Schwarzkopf put it, Khafji...
...because I no longer believe that a little offense now will help create a better environment for future Harvard students. Unlike those who hung the Confederate flag, I myself was offended by my flag as one whose ancestors Hitler certainly would not have embraced and, indeed, would have slaughtered en mass had we been a little more accessible. I looked beyond the hurt, however, to something more important...
...travel, it seems, is nothing more than the relentless pursuit of the unique. Or perhaps more accurately, the escape from the familiar. But more and more, unique places are beginning to resemble each other, if not in substance then in style. Back-to-the-land yuppies escape to Vermont en masse looking for that perfect crafts fair only to discover that their upper-East Side neighbors are sitting in the BMW in front of them in the interminable traffic jam on the way. Local eateries on country roads in Louisiana are replaced by Wendy's, while diners in Boston...
...HAVEN--The Crimson (9-14 overall, 6-5 Ivy) lost its fourth consecutive league game last night, as Yale (12-11, 6-5) dominated the second half en route to a 86-64 victory here at Payne Whitney Gymnasium...