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...name--Brown's 250-lb. Carlos Williams, who scorched the Harvard men's basket-ball team with 24 points in the Bruins' 87-77 upset of the Crimson. The loss, combined with Princeton's 60-54 win over Cornell and Dartmouth's 57-51 loss to Yale Saturday, dropped the Crimson (8-9 overall, 4-2 Ivy) into a second-place tie with the Big Green one-half game behind the 4-1 Tigers...
...growing rift between the N.R.A. and some police groups is another important reason lawmakers feel freer to resist gun-lobby pressure. Last year the N.R.A. went up against Texas police groups over its lobbying for a law permitting citizens to carry concealed weapons. "They're an 800-lb. gorilla with no finesse," complains Ronald DeLord, president of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. "Every issue isn't the Alamo...
...Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. "Maybe you've had experience and maybe you ain't only an amature, as it were." Seattle animal importer Andy Koffman ain't no amateur. In 1986, while visiting the African nation of Cameroon, Koffman watched a 10-lb. Goliath frog leap 30 ft. across a river, and jumped to a conclusion. "The first thing I thought was, 'Wouldn't it be fun to win the Calaveras contest?' " recalls Koffman...
Figuring that the Goliaths could easily shatter the world frog-jumping record of 21 ft. 5 3/4 in. (set in three hops in 1986 by Rosie the Ribbiter, a 1-lb. bullfrog), Koffman entered three of them in this May's 62nd annual Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels Camp, Calif., site of Twain's tale. Though the California department of fish and game temporarily barred the superfrogs from the state as "undesirable," Koffman will try to convince the bureaucrats that the Goliaths pose no danger -- except perhaps to the pip-squeak American competitors in the Calaveras jump...
However, Harvard was nearly swept in the field events. The Crimson had only one first-place finish, as freshman William Doyle threw the 35-lb. weight 56-ft., 9-in. to lead the pack...