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...overpowering. Junior driver Mike Crosby scored four goals as Harvard leapt out to an early lead in the first quarter. The lead was so secure that Harvard Coach Jim Floerchinger went deep into the bench, playing all of his third and fourth string athletes. Even then, Yale could only muster two goals...
...anti-apartheid struggle. Today some 150 mutual funds screen out politically incorrect companies. But more than anyone, Domini made ethical investing a mass-market option. Ten years ago, with two partners, she set up the Domini 400 Social Index, a benchmark for responsible portfolios. Its companies must pass muster on 140 issues, ranging from toxic-waste fines to diversity in top management. Yet Domini has kept pace with the S&P 500--a feat managed by fewer than a third of other mutual funds...
...best Lieberman could muster was an "I'm thinking about it." For Cheney, more bluntly, the issue was "no slam dunk." Padding their responses with empty rhetoric, both candidates did a poor job of concealing the message their answers conveyed: Implied in the constitutional promise of equal rights for all citizens is an exception clause with respect to gays...
Facing Army in the quarterfinals the team had a bit more trouble. By winning at Nos. 2 and 3 doubles, Army took the lead by clinching the doubles point. Army's Marshall Clay beat Browne, 6-5, 6-4, but that was all the Black Knights could muster. Harvard won at Nos. 2 through 6 singles to win the overall match...
...greatest weakness of current efforts to put the peace process back together is that they depend on both Arafat and Barak being able to muster the political support necessary to turn the political tide on both sides of the divide. And in both cases, that may be a tall order. Barak's domestic political weakness is forcing Barak to act tough, and he's now considering a unity government with the Likud party who've opposed the peace process all the way. And the mounting violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is a frightening portent of the drift...