Word: final
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...scoreless at halftime. Then, with 15 minutes remaining in the game, Army put the first points on the board with a try and a conversion. Quickly following with two penalty kicks, the Cadets shut the Crimson out until Harvard succesfully scored a penalty kick, bringing the score to the final...
...mounting under the tutelage of media meister Roger Ailes. In the closing weeks of the race, Giuliani nearly overcame Dinkins' double-digit lead in the polls. Giuliani launched a subtle appeal to the fears of white voters and exploited widespread disgust with the corruption that plagued Koch's final term by raising troubling questions about Dinkins' monumentally sloppy handling of his personal finances, including failure to file income tax forms for four years in the early 1970s...
...underlines the extent of the racial barriers that he has surmounted. But in the topsy-turvy world of political analysis, this Virginia victory was measured against the unrealistically optimistic expectations raised by the pre-election surveys and as a result was somehow found wanting. According to the final CBS/New York Times exit polls, Wilder won an impressive 39% of the white vote. In 1988 Democratic primaries, Jackson never came close to this type of biracial mandate. Moreover, Wilder ran neck and neck with Coleman among all voters over 45, the group most likely to remember the era of "massive resistance...
...past decade, Deng Xiaoping shed so many of his titles that Westerners came to refer to him simply as China's leader. Last week he retired from his final official party post -- the chairmanship of the Central Military Commission, the party organ that oversees the armed forces and thus guaranteed him supreme power over the People's Republic. Deng's retirement, announced at the end of a secretive four-day party plenum that imposed a conservative agenda of economic retrenchment on the country, surprised Chinese and Westerners alike. Had Deng conceded political and economic momentum to the conservatives...
Army shocked Harvard (0-2-1 overall, 0-2-1 ECAC) last night, skating to a 4-3 victory sparked by senior Rich Sheridan, who scored two goals--including the game-winner--in the final period. It was the Crimson's first loss in its home opener in 10 years. Princeton (1-1-1 ECAC) stunned Cornell last week, and tied Dartmouth, 1-1, last night in Hanover...