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...rival Dartmouth in triple overtime. The result placed the Crimson in the enviable position of being the only remaining undefeated team in the Ivies. Having already defeated Penn and Princeton, Harvard must still face Cornell, Brown, Yale and Dartmouth on its road to the Ivy League crown, which players insist is their number one priority...
...make the carnage bearable, we tell each other that the North was fighting for God and goodness--"Glory, Glory, Hallelujah." We insist that for one brief moment, right and might were allied to crush the evil South. And so we honor the memory of the victors in America's great crusade; Memorial Hall was built for the explicit purpose of honoring the Northerners...
...winners. The prizes are also given for music, drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and biography, but it is the 14 journalism awards that will have champagne corks poised in anxious newsrooms. Before the bubbly flows, just one question: Is there a trick to winning? Members of the Pulitzer board insist there is none, but that has not stopped newspapers from playing shamelessly to the judges...
...Kuwait Investment Office is friend or foe. Reason: the Kuwaitis are still buying BP shares -- with an enthusiasm that has raised suspicions in Britain. Kuwait has spent some $1.9 billion, bringing its stake in British Petroleum up to 22%, to become BP's largest shareholder. The Kuwaitis insist that they will not seek a seat on BP's board. They initially promised not to raise their stake above 22.5%, but Fauad Jaffar, deputy chairman of KIO, seemed to waffle on that pledge during a recent television interview. Said he: "If the situation changes, obviously any investor must have an open...
...with the National Civic Crusade, a coalition of business and professional groups that has demanded the general's departure. In return for stepping down as military chief, Noriega apparently wants to remain in Panama and to have a voice in reshaping the armed forces and the government. Crusade members insist that the general leave the country permanently...