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Strong freshmen include sprinter Shayne Mauricette, who took first in the 55 meter dash, middle distance runners Ben Bowen, who took second in the 800 meters, and distance runners Brian Walsh and Derek Lombard...
Offense WR Mike Jamin (Sr., Cornell) WR Nate Taylor (Sr., Brown) TE Chris Beiswenger (Sr., Princeton) OT Jason Slavik (Jr., Harvard) OG Scott Reade (Sr., Cornell) OG J.C. Stilley (Sr., Princeton) OG Walton Smith (Jr., Brown) C Ian Lombard (Jr., Princeton) QB Mike Giardi (Jr., Harvard) RB Keith Price (Jr., Yale) RB Scott Oliaro (Sr., Cornell) PK Mike Cochrane (Sr., Cornell...
...were in such contrast to the first sluggish response that the idea was revived of automatically bypassing civil authorities in the case of big catastrophes and sending for the soldiers immediately. "Neither the locals nor FEMA has the capacity to deal with a major catastrophe like Andrew," argues Linda Lombard, the Charleston County councilwoman who battled FEMA for relief money after Hugo hit South Carolina in 1989. "A major disaster is a war. And the people who are in that business are the U.S. military. When is the lesson going to be learned...
...delegation of Hurricane Hugo veterans from Charleston has already warned Dade County officials that the worst part is yet to come. "They document you to death. You have to document every nail on every roof," says Councilwoman Lombard sourly. "We had 600 miles of ditch to be cleaned. To document it, we had to walk it. Dade's got 200 miles of canals. Rest assured that FEMA will make them swim it to document it." Though Bush promised total reimbursement for storm cleanup efforts, the island city of Key Biscayne is already % squabbling with FEMA about reimbursement for early debris...
...than 4% annually, Germany's Bundesbank sought to dampen it by raising the benchmark discount rate for lending to banks a hefty .75%, to 8.75%, the highest level since 1931. But to spur world economic recovery, the board at the same time left unchanged, at 9.75%, the so-called Lombard rate, which governs charges for overnight loans among banks in Germany and has a wider international impact than the discount rate...