Word: fought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville, Fla., and the golf course became David's refuge. It would not shield him then, nor could it later, when his parents divorced, finally, in 1996. But things have since improved. Duval has reconciled with his father, while his mother has fought her way back from depression. Duval's longtime girlfriend, Julie McArthur, has said it can't be coincidental that David's breakthrough in golf arrived as he and his family achieved a certain stasis...
Cornell (9-5 overall; 1-2 EITA) heads into the weekend coming off of a hard-fought loss to New York rival Army, 4-3. Despite leading for a majority of the match, Army came back to win the contest in the final singles match when senior captain Peter Stahl lost a three-set heartbreaker...
Rhode Island (9 -15, 0-3 Atlantic 10) useda four-run fifth inning-keyed by first baseman Jason Chamsarian's tworun home run off freshman starter Justin Nyweide--to break open a 2-2 tie, then fought off a late Harvard rush to win 6-5 yesterday at O'Donnell Field...
...Larry Flynt fought for our constitutional right to parody public figures-to fabricate stories about ministers engaging in a drunken incestuous rendezvous with their mothers in outhouses, so long as it did not intend "actual malice." A decade later, Flynt is back at the First Amendment dartboard, this time aiming to accomplish some good ol'progressive muckraking...
...denunciation. No sanctions. No bombing. No indignant speeches about ethnic cleansing and the slaughter of innocents. In fact, in justifying the current bombing of Serbia, Clinton made an indirect reference to this Croatian campaign when he credited the "courageous people in Bosnia and in Croatia" who "fought back" against the Serbs and "helped to end the war." Indeed, they did. Croatia's savage ethnic cleansing so demoralized the Serbs that they soon agreed to sign the Dayton peace accord...