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...reached into the tub of icing to grab one last spoonful, Zachary momentarily forgot about the cookie, letting it drop face-down onto the floor of Leverett House's Old Library...
...Loker Commons] is not the booming social center that the administration thought it would be," says Dunster House resident Michael P. Spence '99, who had dropped by a sparsely-populated Loker on Friday night to grab pizza with his roommate...
...crowds turning out for Dole were sparse. But for comfort he has in-house poll numbers that show him continuing to gain ground in California. So is this one last grab for the gold ring, as his campaign insists? Or is it a soberly calculated admission of defeat--and a final effort on behalf of the G.O.P. by a man who has devoted his life to his party? In a panic over the prospect of losing the Republican Congress, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour and House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been pushing Dole toward California, where 52 House seats...
...Russia in the months to come. They fear that Yeltsin's health is too precarious to call and are concerned that Russia could face mass unrest later this year if the government continues to be months behind in paying salaries. Should this happen, they reason, Lebed might make a grab for power. And if he stays in office for a few more months, he might have enough time to build the sort of base that would allow him to succeed...
...Lebed was planning a coup, that he wanted to place most of the country's intelligence and military machine under his control and had proposed the creation of a 50,000-strong Russian Legion--ostensibly to fight crime, but in fact, Kulikov said, to be used in a power grab...