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...anchormen have come home. Star correspondents Arthur Kent and Bob McKeown are eagerly anticipating their next contract negotiations. Even for David Letterman, the end of the war brought a sense of relief. "Finally," he said, "we can go back to ignoring...
...Captain Doug Derraugh (25-32--57), a feisty 5-ft. 10-in., 180-lb. wing, and Ryan Hughes (18-29--47), a swift 6-ft. 1 in., 186-lb. sophomore center, lead the attack. Kent Manderville (14-13--27)--a Calgary Flames second-round pick in 1989--and Trent Andison (19-23--42) will keep LaPerriere and Co.'s hands full...
Flomenhoft and Mallgrave have already more than doubled last year's output. Drury--who finished second in last year's ECAC Rookie of the Year balloting to Cornell's Kent Manderville despite missing 11 games due to injury--has stayed healthy enough to total almost a point-and-a-half per game...
...into helicopters and left Saigon to Vietnam's victorious communists. The pain of that and so many other Vietnam memories -- the dead children of My Lai, the shock of Tet '68, the coups and countercoups, the fraggings, the drugs, the invasion of Cambodia, the killing of American students at Kent State -- somehow only increased as the years passed. When the U.S.-led forces raced across Kuwait and Iraq last week, however, they may have defeated not just the Iraqi army but also the more virulent of the ghosts from the Vietnam era: self-doubt, fear of power, divisiveness, a fundamental...
...forces were present, albeit not as overt. There was no Sedition Act or widespread jailing of certain parts of the population. But intolerance and repression became part of the social fabric. Police violently ended student demonstrations at Columbia and Harvard. In 1970, National Guardsmen inexplicably killed four students at Kent State University. The injustice of the murders there is widely recognized now, but in a poll taken just after the incident, four out of five Americans backed the officers' actions...