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Cornell's second goal was less of a fluke since the Big Red was putting heavy pressure on Tracy, but once again it appeared that Lady Luck was wearing a Cornell jersey...
...thought that we really outplayed them in the second half," co-captain Elizabeth Proudfit said. "It was sort of a fluke being tied at the end of regulation so I think everyone felt very confident going into overtime...
...world championship? Just five months ago, the same Kasparov played a championship match against the next best player of the human species. The No. 2 human played Kasparov 18 games, and won one. Deep Blue played Kasparov and won its very first game. And it was no fluke. Over the first four games, the machine played Kasparov dead even--one win, one loss, two draws--before the champ rallied and came away with the final two games...
...dead man may have been an IRA operative on his way to plant the device somewhere else. The IRA issued a statement saying it regretted the loss of life, but the blast is evidence that the organization's February 9th bombing of a London office complex was not a fluke. "The cease-fire in England is definitely over," says Time's Barry Hillenbrand. "If the terror campaign does not work in London, it could be expanded to other cities, and the killing between the Unionists and Republicans in Northern Ireland could start again. The situation would be back to where...
Perhaps we should not feel sorry for Dole. Because if Steve Forbes' support in New Hampshire turns out to be more than a fluke, and Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan inch higher in the polls, Dole will get desperate, and the result will be painful for us all to see. Dole's initial flurry of negative attack ads has been futile, and he is now starting to reach for his secret weapon--his war injury...