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Today, Harvard (6-9-1; 5-5-1 ECAC) travels to Achilles Rink to battle a Union team that has had a near abysmal year. The Skating Dutchmen (4-9-2 overall, 2-5-1 ECAC) have yet to mount an impressive attack, dropping to tenth in the league over the first half of the season. The Dutchmen, however, are coming off a 6-1 trouncing of Princeton on Saturday and will no doubt try to take advantage of a struggling Crimson squad...
...Association of Retired Persons by staving off a proposal to raise co-payments and deductibles for people who stayed in the traditional fee-for-service plan. When White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta finally convened a meeting of health lobbyists at the White House to beg them to mount a late offensive, one bluntly told him that his opportunity had passed: "We've been meeting with Gingrich every two days. They were the only game in town...
...crimes by detective Robert Perez. Perez's charges were based on unvideotaped "recovered memories," which it now seems he may have coerced from children, including his troubled foster daughter. Yet he and local prosecutors still managed to jail 28 people, many poor, mentally deficient, or otherwise unable to mount a robust defense...
...where the Ark of the Covenant (the "Lost Ark" of Raiders fame) was stored. That's sure to be controversial; the author contends that it must have been placed in a rectangular indentation on the outcropping beneath the Dome of the Rock, the sacred Muslim shrine on the Temple Mount...
That vote may yet come to naught. President Clinton has already threatened to veto the bill for other reasons. The American Civil Liberties Union has promised to mount vigorous challenges should the bill become law, and many experts believe the Supreme Court would find such a law unconstitutional. The Congressmen who took a public stand against online indecency may have known that it would not survive a court test. But they had a chance last week to show that they understood how to apply civil rights to new media, and they failed...