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...Stoeckel’s liner thudded off the Monster right back to the left fielder, who heaved it to second base. The senior quickly shuffled back to first and realized that he had been a part of one the intricacies of the nation’s oldest Major League stadium...
...couples as a threat to the "skeletal system" of civilization, and supported bans on abortion without exceptions for rape or incest. He never engaged criticism of the regressive nature of his plan to abolish the income tax. After making repeated blunders about foreign policy facts, he employed a one-liner to silence his critics: "The mistakes that I think you will find me making are going to be mistakes of a word here and a figure there," he said. "But not mistakes of the heart...
After Harvard scored, two penalties swung the momentum in Brown’s favor, and the Bears answered with a goal late in the first period. On a power play, Brown blue-liner Sean Hurley found teammate Jeff Prough beside the crease where the forward was able to knot the game...
...expects Raul, himself once known as a communist hard-liner, to be Mikhail Gorbachev. But the less charismatic Raul is considered more pragmatic than his brother, and had been making perestroika-style noises since taking over as interim President after Fidel underwent major intestinal surgery 18 months ago. As a result, now that Raul has full presidential powers, many Cuba watchers had expected younger faces to emerge - widely anticipating, for example, that Raul's reform-minded economy czar, Carlos Lage, who in relative Cuban terms is a positively teen-aged 56, would become First Vice President. Lage instead remained...
...Cuba analysts like Latell still believe Raul will pursue economic if not political restructuring. Machado, a doctor who served as a medic to the Castro brothers' rebel army and has been at their side since Fidel took power in 1959, may be a geriatric hard-liner, but he is also one of Raul's closest confidantes and may help his reforms navigate the minefield of Fidelista resistance during the early stages of Raul's rule. Those changes are expected to include broadening private enterprise, especially in the agriculture and service sectors - institutionalizing profit-oriented farmers' markets, for example, and letting...