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Harvard coach Ray Essick voiced cautious optimism about today's meet. "We were at a high pitch last weekend against Dartmouth, and there is a tendency to flatten out after that kind of performance," he said yesterday...
...effect of high velocity ammunition fired by the M-16 rifle is similar to that of the "dum-dum bullet" banned by the Hague Declaration of 1899. The Declaration forbade use of "bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body...
...little of that slack is being taken up by the popularity of Haitian art. One form is uniquely Haitian. Unlike other islanders in the Caribbean, Haitians do not use oil drums as instruments for steel bands. Instead they flatten the drums and cut them into graceful, imaginative steel sculpture. Pieces by Murat Brierre usually sell for about $300. But it is the primitive Haitian painting (much of it now mass produced and second rate) that has largely captured the imagination-and the dollars-of tourists. The bold, brilliant-hued Haitian art is displayed and sold everywhere: in a proliferating number...
...while awing Washington's Camelot-prone denizens with a keen ability to persuade. Under Daly, the OGCA has discharged with impressive finesse the monitoring of potentially inimical laws in Washington and Massachusetts administration of the Nieman Fellows program, negotiations with Cambridge residents--and not at all least helping to flatten bills which endangered Harvard interests...
...team MVP, and Captain Dave Ignacio no longer occupies the rover back position, but his replacement, hard-hitting veteran Steve Golden, should make the most of a rover back's many opportunities to flatten opposing runners and receivers (Ignacio led the team in tackies last year with 60, 19 more than his nearest competitor...