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...Friars brought the pace of the game to a halt with their aggressive checking in the third period and eventually managed to net the equalizer...
...critical as outside help is, especially for the millions of victims, the even greater responsibility lies within Africa to teach, preach and practice safe sex. Unless the AIDS scourge is headed off at its source, namely rampant sexual promiscuity, no TIME special reports or outside help will halt the impending calamity. MICHAEL CASSIDY INTERNATIONAL TEAM LEADER AFRICAN ENTERPRISE Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
...Harvard 67, Cornell 57 (Feb. 4, 2000)--First game back after a two-month abscence from eye surgery; scores 24 points off the bench to halt a three-game losing streak...
...Bush's $900-odd billion marginal rate reductions, a major pocket of bipartisan opposition to the President's overall tax-cut plan reared its head in the Senate. A centrist clutch of five Republicans and six Democrats banded together Wednesday and demanded a trigger - a legislative clause that would halt tax cuts if the government ran out of surpluses - as the first condition of their support...
...most brazen violation occurred last year in Dinghai, the site of the first Opium War, where town officials flattened nationally protected city walls and houses to make way for profit-making office blocks. Local citizens had tried to secure a judicial order to halt demolition. But under pressure from the city government, the court allowed the wrecking balls to continue swinging. "Today, everyone's so concerned with making money that we think it's fine to tear down historic buildings for a quick payout," says Liu Bingkun, a lecturer at the China State Academy of Fine Arts...