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...Harvard men's basketball team will try to continue its modest two-game winning streak today when it squares off against Lafayette (1-2) at Lavietes Pavilion. Harvard (2-0) hopes to follow its blowout wins over Babson and Army with an impressive performance over an improved Lafayette squad...
With all these records, one might expect Hu to become distracted. But his focus for the last two years has remained on improving his performance, and don't expect that to change next season. Hu is a modest man who has not lost perspective on his accomplishments or on The Game...
...from accomplishing their goals simply by cutting their funding. Without money to hire employees, investigate health and safety risks and enforce statutes, these agencies will be toothless. For example, House legislation slashes the EPA budget by one-third, to $4.9 billion dollars. In contrast, President Clinton has proposed a modest increase in the EPA budget...
...that hardly amounts to a declaration that peace is about to break out in Bosnia. Indeed, far from it. But if nothing else, the modest gesture attested to a spirit of grudging but determined compromise that seemed to pervade the first week of talks at Wright-Patterson. Perhaps that spirit stemmed from the Balkan leaders' recognition that this was probably their best and last foreseeable chance to craft peace. Or maybe it was owing to the tremendous diplomatic and military prestige America has staked on the conference's outcome. Whatever the reason, despite efforts to ratchet down expectations, a case...
...downtown, criticizes union rules and appeals to Big Business to stay in town and create jobs. Says Jordan: "I've been a public servant for 37 years. I'm not looking at a future career in politics. I just want to make the city work." Brown, characteristically, is less modest. "The city needs my skills," he says. "I want to bring back the magic...