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...year-old conflict, the insurgents fired a surface-to-air missile at an air force jet. The sharply escalating violence not only raised fresh questions about Nicaragua's role in arming the Salvadoran guerrillas, but proved an unwelcome irritant for the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the eve of their Malta summit...
MARSAXLOKK BAY, Malta--President bush urged Mikhail S. Gorbachev on the eve of their super-power summit yesterday to help mold "a future free of both tyranny and fear." The Soviet leader concluded a historic Vatican visit with a pledge of new religious freedoms back home...
That was in 1966. Four years later, as the young head coach of William and Mary, he took that school to its only bowl game. Seven years after that, he suspended three star players from his Arkansas squad for violating team rules on the eve of an Orange Bowl showdown against heavily favored Oklahoma. Arkansas still managed to win, 31-6, another example of Holtz's turning adversity into unlikely advantage...
...lure of anything more tangible than a good dinner. Think of the novelty of an extended family forced to spend the day doing little other than talking, eating and digesting. Distractions are gloriously limited: the malls are closed and the televised sports offerings sparse. Unlike New Year's Eve, no one feels compelled to have the time of one's life or broods unduly when reality fails to conform to these exaggerated expectations. The perfect Thanksgiving is timeless, as families replicate their own familiar rituals, complete with the unconscious re-enactment of parental conflicts and sibling rivalries that may date...
That led to eleventh-hour alterations to accommodate Fundamentalists, who believe God directly created Adam and Eve. The board deleted references to a 1987 Supreme Court ruling and a National Academy of Sciences booklet that oppose giving Darwin and creationism equal weight in science classes. The Californians also omitted this: "There is no scientific dispute that evolution has occurred and continues to occur; this is why evolution is regarded as a scientific fact." But another section asserts, "It is a scientific fact that organisms have evolved through time." The board advises teachers not to suppress part of the curriculum...