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...Hofstra, powered by sophomore midfielder Brian Langtree (four goals), just would not call it quits. Both teams traded punches, but it was Harvard who landed the knockout blow when Pat Marvin fittingly scored the last goal of the game...
Peres must be concerned, however, with the effect of any radical punishment on Arafat's standing among his own people, who tend to hold him accountable for the excesses of his Israeli partners. "It's in the interest of the government to pressure Arafat but not to deliver a knockout punch," says Yaron Ezrahi, a senior fellow at the Israeli Democracy Institute. Nor can Peres afford to incite the Palestinian public so much that it turns violently against the accords. Says "Ghazi," a figure in the military wing of Hamas: "The Israelis are laying the ground for a revolution...
...caucus-goers to be social or religious conservatives, twice the percentage that participated when Dole won in 1988. Reed's goal is for Dole to attract about one-fifth of that constituency, which he believes will be enough to give Dole 40% of the overall vote, a knockout blow. That's the chief reason Dole attacks what he believes are "Hollywood's nightmares of depravity" whenever he visits the state. And it helps explain why Dole's new 30-second television ad, which promises tax cuts worth "$330 million for Iowa families," touts a "conservative agenda for change." Last week...
...propriety, Julie Johnson takes a few dainty steps to the front of the stage, sucks a little more oxygen into her grand bosom and singes the audience with I Do What I Can (with What I Got), a torchy tune about the advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show-biz skeptic that, yes, the Broadway musical is alive and well...
...boxing world received a shot in the arm with the return of Mike Tyson to the ring. Iron Mike didn't disappoint in his debut, recording a first-round knockout against a marginally-worthy opponent, Peter McNeely...