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...women's volleyball season came to an abrupt halt on Saturday when the team was defeated early in the Ivy Tournament and finished in fourth place...
...Unabomber, the prospect of a trial evokes feelings ranging from dread to relief. University of Colorado engineering professor John Hauser, who was an Air Force pilot and aspiring astronaut when he was injured in a May 1985 bombing at Berkeley, says the arrest of a suspect and the halt to the bombings meant more to him than the trial. "If having the trial over means that I could fly jets again and pursue those paths, I'd say, 'Hey, great! Cool!'" he told TIME. "But it's not going to bring my hand back...
...buyers in particular--catch their breath. Of course, we had never had to use the collars, so who knew? Didn't take long to find out. Traders used these anachronisms, put in when the Dow traded at one-fifth its current valuation, to figure out what to sell. The halt was spooky, flushing sellers from the woodwork when the market reopened. We must have lost 100 points in the time it takes for a bomb to drop from...
There was no need to revisit China's agreement to halt its assistance to Iran's nuclear program. That had finally been worked out just minutes before the meeting. In the past, Chinese arms-control assurances have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form...
...real enmity between gay activists and the Religious Right. We demonize each other in our fundraising letters and in our speeches, and we caricature one another in our politics. From the time I came out, I always saw the battle as a tiny band of good people trying to halt the huge, powerful "other" on a thousand different fronts...