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...Chairman Alan Greenspan showed few such signs of concern last week. As Wall Streeters reached for airsick bags, he calmly flew to Boston for a long-scheduled session with fellow bankers. Greenspan believes U.S. economic fundamentals are solid. Fed vice chairman Roger Ferguson told TIME, "The economy is cooling from its unsustainable pace of earlier this year, but recent data certainly don't suggest a dangerous slowdown...
Rahne began the quarter's scoring with a 46-yard touchdown pass on third-and-8 to Keith Ferguson with just over twelve minutes to play...
...followed up Ferguson's score with a 33-yard field goal by junior Peter Iverson. The Iverson field goal, which barely hooked inside the left upright, gave Cornell a chance to go ahead with a touchdown. Harvard's lack of offensive prowess gave Cornell the ball again with 4:01 to play. Seven plays and 88 yards later, Cornell took the lead for good...
Tierney also takes on the swashbuckling ethnographer Napoleon Chagnon, whose 1968 volume Yanomamo: The Fierce People first made the tribe famous and whose books continue to be staples of college anthropology courses. Chagnon has been challenged before, notably by Rutgers University Newark anthropologist Brian Ferguson, whose 1995 book on Yanomami warfare suggested that the presence of foreigners, Chagnon in particular, sparked much of the conflict among the Yanomami. Tierney's charges go further. He claims that Chagnon manipulated his data to support his sociobiological thesis that natural selection favored Yanomami who were genetically prone to violence. Moreover, he asserts that...
Even though Cornell wide receiver Keith Ferguson finally scored the first TD of the game, Bucknell scored 31 unanswered points to put the game out of reach...