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...lunge for the jugular is most apparent in the ads. Since firearms cannot be sold through the mails, weapon manufacturers offer only catalogs to readers. But enough lethal ware, from blowguns to exploding arrows to mini-garrotes, can be bought to fend off any guerrillas who might happen to invade your backyard. Budding adventurers can bone up on techniques by ordering Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks ("You'll never again have to 'grin and bear it' when inconsiderate creeps do you dirty"; $12.95) while sipping coffee from a Soldier of Fortune mug ($7.95) and relaxing...
...Tigers were able to maintain their powerful pace and fend off the charging Radcliffe vessel, crossing the line in 6:24.5, ahead of the Black and White (6:26.8) and the ignored step-child Cornell...
...junior Zak Farkes continued to battle shoulder soreness, that’s where sophomore Brendan Byrne, hoping to fend off a cadre of worthy challengers for the fill-in role, hoisted the Harvard baseball team (11-6, 4-0 Ivy) to dual victories in Philadelphia yesterday. With twin two-RBI doubles—the second giving the Crimson the eventual victory in Game 2—Byrne paced a balanced offense from the nine hole in a 6-4, 11-5 doubleheader sweep of Penn...
...supplies. Nonetheless, to boost the fortitude of the eighth-graders during the critical examination year, the community provides them with a midday meal, cooked with wood and water the students bring from home. Alas, the community is currently unable to provide midday meals for the younger children, who must fend for themselves...
...regulation play ended with the Crimson in control, and a stunned Dartmouth squad had to fend off a growing Harvard attack in overtime...