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...When you get up on a team like that, there is a tendency to have a letdown," Tomassoni said. "We took some foolish penalties...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Icemen Explode For Four Against Yale | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

...waste your time on this Japan-bashing, lackluster, confused letdown--just wait for "Robocop 4." This movie series can only get better...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: New, Not Improved | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Even away from the family, A Different Person can seem like an elegant book-length footnote to Merrill's poetry: not a bad reason for the book to exist, though perhaps a letdown for consumers. (The chapters on Hans Lodeizen and on Kimon Friar and his house in Greece are especially relevant to specific poems in Merrill's early books...

Author: By Stephen L. Burt, | Title: The Prosaic Reveries of James Merrill | 10/28/1993 | See Source »

...contrast, George Mason never let Harvard into Sunday's game. Suffering a not-unexpected letdown, the Crimson defense surrendered a goal in the second minute, and given the situation, "it was very difficult to fight back," Wheaton said...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Ranked Va. Teams Defeat W. Soccer | 9/28/1993 | See Source »

...those Americans for whom peace in the Middle East has been their life's work, the letdown is understandable. Midwives often endure depression as the fruit of their labors is enjoyed by others. Yet the wisest have always known that a settlement imposed by outsiders rarely holds, that the end of enmity requires that the combatants themselves desire it. They know too that the glow of face-to-face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Now Comes Clinton's Turn | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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