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Columbia's last-second, come-from-behind victory last week was painful," in the words of Harvard coach Tim Murphy, because the Crimson looked strong during the game--stronger than last season, at least--and because the victory slipped out of Harvard's grasp in the waning moments. In the first half of the game, the Harvard offense moved the ball with while the young defense looked solid, albeit inexperienced...
...making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes: taxes! Taxes, as Newt Gingrich and others have patiently explained, slow economic growth. True enough. But if economic growth places such a strain on community to begin with--a fact that Gingrich seems to grasp--what's so bad about a marginally subdued rate of growth...
...Serb civilians fleeing from the town of Bosansko Grahovo, which the Croats captured on Friday. Croat forces followed up by taking nearby Glamoc and shelling Strmica. Karadzic confirmed that his army had "withdrawn to reserve positions" and ordered full mobilization in the 70% of Bosnia already in his grasp...
...demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
...another scene, she informs Haseltine that his wife is cuckolding him and his daughter is leaving his grasp in a way that clearly conveys her sense of power...