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However, if Harvard can't find a four-leaf clover to change its luck, the players know all too well that they will again be fighting an uphill battle...
...Dick Thompson: It means the administration may have to look for a new fig leaf. Conservative economists - rather than scientists - have been saying for a long time that there's a lot of uncertainty about the science of global warming. But what this report is saying is that despite uncertainties on a variety of questions, there's enough certainties to draw certain basic conclusions, one of them being that the planet's temperatures are rising as a result of human activity...
...President Clinton, of course, met the Dalai Lama, too, but he used the diplomatic fig-leaf of the "drop-in" visit - the Tibetan leader just happened to be meeting with Vice President Gore at the White House when the President "spontaneously" dropped in on them - to assuage Beijing. President Bush, however, is holding a scheduled meeting with the Tibetan leader, and China is accusing Washington of interfering in its domestic affairs...
...There's a sense of d?j? vu about the frenzied speculation concerning the identity and character of this alleged Kim. For years, North Korea-watchers have engaged in the same kind of tea-leaf reading about Kim Jong Il. Before he ascended to the throne, he was reported to be a womanizer, big drinker and pornography freak. But North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong...
...DOMI Toronto Maple Leaf yanked from NHL playoffs after needlessly elbowing opponent