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Despite an injury which forced McNabb--the Crimson's number-two player--to forfeit her singles match and a few late Penn wins, Harvard maintained its intensity and walked away from its first Ivy League contest with...
...shake," says Michael Gunnells, the assistant warden in charge of security. A year ago, for instance, at Camp J -- home to Angola's incorrigibles -- staff morale had bottomed out in a storm of hurled food, spit and excrement. Whitley responded with a strict set of disincentives. Curse a guard, forfeit canteen privileges. Throw a meal tray, lose your radio. "The burden is on prisoners," says Captain Davy Kelone. "It drives them crazy." That it does. Camp J inmate Virgil Smith likens his living conditions to a "concentration camp" and his punishment meals to "dog food...
...serve as a warning that there is a limit to the burdens people will endure for the sake of political and economic reform. But even though hardship and turmoil have plagued their first 12 months of freedom, the Baltic states sacrificed too much in the struggle for independence to forfeit their dreams of a better life. Few Balts, after all, would trade their nation's future -- however uncertain -- for its past...
...wife, Elisabetha, hears a false report of his death, she commits suicide, and the Church pronounces her soul damned. In a fit of rage and sorrow, the prince vows to join her in damnation and becomes a vampire. Essentially, the torture of his vampirism derives not from the forfeit of his soul but rather the pain of lost romance. Doomed to an endlessly lonely and tragic existence, he just wants to be loved--is that so wrong...
...being overage -- most of the team wasn't even from Zamboanga City. League officials in Manila had packed the squad with ringers even though national All-Star squads are barred from the World Series. Little League officials in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, declared eight Philippine players ineligible Thursday and ordered a forfeit of their team's 15-4 victory last month over Long Beach, California. The newly crowned California team got together Thursday night for a quiet celebration at a park. "I think this is a real big / thing," said pitcher Randall Shelley, 12. "But it would have been better...