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Among the few Harvard men's highlights was the performance of jumpers Derrick Horner and Ed Rios. Horner won the long jump with a leap of 6.71 meters, while Rios took the high jump with an effort of over...
While much of the magazine-publishing business has been hit hard by the recession, one new publication is off to a smashing start. The Quayle Quarterly has watched its circulation leap eightfold in just a year. The Connecticut-based newsletter, dedicated to keeping "a watchful eye on the vice presidency," has become required reading for 16,000 political junkies. Co-founder Deborah Werksman insists that her magazine treats its subject fairly, and attributes its success to the "high level of civic anxiety" + about the man who could be President...
...BOMBS. A version of cluster bombs, they explode in midair, scattering small, hard-to-detect mines over a region as large as 90,000 sq. yds. Under normal conditions, a soldier might be able to sidestep these explosives, but in the heat of battle, there is a tendency to leap without looking. The gator bomb thus can create panic among the enemy...
...through every level of the racially torn society. Despite the truce between Mandela and Buthelezi, the two leaders remain far apart in their strategy. As A.N.C. demonstrators called for immediate elections, Buthelezi applauded De Klerk's rejection of such a move, which the Zulu leader denounced as "a constitutional leap into the dark." At the same time, Buthelezi praised the De Klerk government for "lending its weight to breaking the back of apartheid...
Union, located in Schenectady, N.Y., takes a two division leap by entering the league, but ECAC Executive Director Joe Bertagna has high hopes for the Skating Dutchmen program...