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...most spectacular bailout would be a repeat of the Berlin airlift launched by the U.S., Britain and France when the Soviets cut off supplies to the city's western sectors in 1948. But as Paul Craig Roberts, professor of political economy at Georgetown University, notes, "It's a crackpot idea." West Berlin, then as now, was under the control of the three Allies and could be reached through an air corridor to which they had legal access. Getting to Lithuania, whether by plane, train, truck or ship, would mean violating the Soviet border -- as Moscow draws it anyway. "That...
Snyder grew up in Kingston, New York before receiving his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1966. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1970, his law degree from Georgetown Law Center in 1974 and his masters of law from Harvard...
Xavier 74, Georgetown...
...after year, he molds a succession of students whose collective athletic skills would not elicit a raised eyebrow from pro scouts into cohesive units that play a disciplined, cerebral game and regularly confound Top 20 opponents. Yet, until one evening last March when his team nervelessly took top-seeded Georgetown to the limit, losing 50-49, Carril was a household name only in the 609 area code. This week, better known but still wearing the same tatty blue pullover sweater, Carril sends his team into battle again in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. No matter whom the team...
...that his fellow coaches need any warning about Carril. After the Georgetown game, John Thompson graciously admitted that he had been outcoached. Jim Boeheim of Syracuse wants to avoid that possibility entirely. + "You never want to play Princeton -- never," he has said. After Princeton scared the bejabbers out of mighty Michigan State, losing earlier this season by two points, Jud Heathcote sang the same tune. "We don't want to play them anymore." Jim Valvano, the coach at North Carolina State, says playing a Carril team is like going to the dentist: very painful. Carril accepts the backhanded compliments...