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...Roman Emperor Hadrian completed one in northern England in A.D. 136 to hold the marauding Picts at bay. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has decided to build its own border monument along sections of the boundary between Mexico and California and between Mexico and Texas. The invading foe: an estimated 1 million Mexicans who cross illegally into the U.S. each year...
Each of these skirmishes lasted nearly three minutes, and the entire battle often continued for more than an hour. Finally, as one minotaur gained the upper hand, his vanquished foe either left the burrow of his own accord or was actually pushed out by the winner (who invariably turned out to be the larger beetle). Thus, Palmer reports in Nature, the minotaur's horns, and perhaps similar horns in other beetles, seem to have been evolved for only one purpose: combat...
Sophomore singles player Martha Roberts also landed in the round of 16, gutting out a close three-setter in first-round play before destroying her second-round foe...
When the Minnesota poll gave Boschwitz a 23-point lead in August, a worried Anderson began to hit back hard, insisting that Kemp-Roth would require a 20% cut in federal spending and cause an "inflationary explosion." His name for his foe: "Big Business Boschwitz." One Anderson TV ad portrays Boschwitz as a cigar-smoking, pin-striped fat cat riding in a careering black limousine, forcing pedestrians to leap out of the way. Anderson also does not hesitate to remind voters that Boschwitz was state chairman for Nixon-Agnew in 1968. Complains Boschwitz: "Guilt by association. I thought that went...
...liberals were organized enough to do things like come up with hit lists, Helms would be near the top. He is a leading foe of the ERA, charging that the International Women's Year conference in Houston was dominated by "militant Marxists" and "lesbians." He claims that President Carter sold out to the Russions by cancelling B-1 Bomber production. He led an unsuccessful fight to lift the Rhodesian chrome import ban. His proposed constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion was so strong that it basically outlawed...