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Trapped in the lull after April's Olympic trials, the Eight are going a little bonkers. Buschbacher has them on a crushing workout schedule. Seven days a week they get to the boathouse at 7 for a morning practice that lasts until around noon, with one short break. For a few hours in the afternoon the women return home to eat and sleep, then they are back by 4 for a two-hour session. When they are grounded by the weather, they use the hated ergometers, or rowing machines. Their goal at night is to make it into the double...
...meet with Yasser Arafat. Despite the election's dramic turn, Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says a Netanyahu victory would not alter Israeli policy, at least for now: "In the short term, not much will change. There are no talks with Syria at the moment, and there is a lull in negotiations with the Palestinians. The real change will come in the medium and long term. Netanyahu clearly intends to take a much tougher line in the peace process." Despite the high stakes, the campaign has been run in an uncharacteristically restrained manner for the usually tempestuous world of Israeli...
Those who survived the storm have the choice of seeing their fate as either a happy accident or a miracle. Fischer's climbers, now led by guide Neal Beidleman, were saved when Beidleman glimpsed the Big Dipper during a storm lull and was able to navigate them into camp. Gau's sherpa managed to wake him and get him down to the high camp, where he could receive fluids intravenously. But the most remarkable revival was that of Weathers, the Dallas doctor. At 9 a.m. on Saturday, fellow climbers left behind his apparently lifeless body; that morning the news...
After a momentary lull in the action, Harvard regained the lead off another goal from Bevilacqua and a score from senior co-captain Chris Wojcik, who took advantage of a Dartmouth turnover...
These bombs mark the end of a four-month lull in violence since the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Unfortunately, they are only the latest in a long line of terrorist attacks in the past few years. Almost all of these acts have been the work of Hamas, the terrorist organization which claimed responsibility for the Sunday bombings...