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Wheeling and dealing sometimes works, but carries a moral and political cost. Until Ollie North's secret arms-for-hostages scheme blew up in political scandal, it did secure the release of three Americans: the Rev. Benjamin Weir, Father Lawrence Jenco and David Jacobsen. But most U.S. politicians and the majority of the population were not prepared to countenance such a cynical trade...
Shared suffering did not make the cramped quarters any easier for them to bear. Anderson, a liberal Democrat, and another hostage, David Jacobsen, a conservative Republican, found that politics could make strained bedfellows. After his release, Jacobsen told a British newspaper, "I was chained for 19 months, night and day, with Terry Anderson, a bleeding-heart liberal. It was hell for me, and you can imagine what it was like for Terry Anderson...
Former hostage Jacobsen, once director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, has predicted they will make it. "If you can last a month," Jacobsen said last year, "you can last forever. The only danger is illness." The remaining hostages have already survived illness and years of cruelty and boredom. Now it is up to their captors to decide how many of them will be allowed to savor freedom...
Rebounds: Yale 43 (Hovespian 15); Harvard 26 (Flandermeyer 8). Assists: Yale 6 (VerSchneider 3); Harvard 14 (Wambach 4). Steals: Yale 8 (Willits 2); Harvard 15 (Kosh, Mazanec, Wambach 3). Blocks: Yale 1 (Jacobsen); Harvard 2 (Flandermeyer). Fouled Out: Harris. Total Fouls: Yale 12; Harvard 16. Turnovers: Yale 29; Harvard...
Siambekos 4-7 5-5 13; Robin VerSchneider 1-6 0-0 2; Kristen Patterson 5-7 1-1 11; Mari Willits 0-5 2-2 2; Sarah Jacobsen 3-12 1-2 7; Lisa Hovsepian...