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That was all Bledsoe needed. Whoever said give him an inch and he'll take a mile must have known our friend from Walla Walla, Washington...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: Playoff-Bound Patriots? | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

...team was disappointed with its performance, despite sophomore Ian Carswell's first-place finish. He completed the hilly five-mile course with a time of 25:40. Brian Walsh was Harvard's second-best runner with a time of 26:18, which placed him ninth overall...

Author: By Luis J. Mendoza, | Title: W.X-Country Win, M. Split Triangular | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

Bosnian Serbs fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a French armored personnel carrier on U.N. peacekeeping duty outside Sarajevo, wounding a French soldier. In retaliation for that attack and three others by the Bosnian Serbs, three NATO jets destroyed a Bosnian Serb tank that had violated the 12.5-mile exclusion zone around Sarajevo. Attempting to further isolate the Bosnian Serbs from their longtime backers in Serbia, the U.N. Security Council voted to ease minor sanctions against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia. The move came after Serbia's President agreed to enforce an embargo on the shipment of war supplies to the Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week September 18-24 | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...misses by a Los Angeles mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...particularly disappointing day, finishing eighth overall in the five-mile event with 222 points...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Mixed Results For Thinclads | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

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