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Sprinting that early in a race is not without its costs. Harvard held off the premature Quaker charge and with 500 meters to go was ready to start its own sprint. Generally, when a crew makes a move and fails to catch the lead eight, the trailing crew cannot muster enough strength to make a second charge and fades...
Colgate, which beat Boston University, 3-2, on Friday to advance to the finals, wasn't able to get on track until the third period, when it outshot Wisconsin, 14-3. Still, the Red Raiders could muster only one third-period goal. The loss was the first in 20 games for Colgate goalie Dave Gagnon, who is 18-1-1 inthat span...
...President will need all the support -- or courage -- he can muster to handle the challenges of his office. Conspicuous by their absence during the voting were most of the Lithuanian Deputies. Four days before, their state parliament had picked a President of its own, Vytautas Landsbergis, the soft- spoken head of the Sajudis popular-front movement. In one of his first official acts, Landsbergis proclaimed Lithuania an independent state. The bold show of defiance drew a rebuke from the congress, which overwhelmingly affirmed that Soviet laws "continue to apply on Lithuanian territory." Gorbachev labeled the Lithuanian decision "illegal and invalid...
...third period featured four Providence goals, while the weary Crimson could not muster another score...
Black leaders take exactly the opposite view. At least some members of the A.N.C. have seen during the past six months how powerless citizens have seized power all over Eastern Europe. With Mandela free, a leader not only in spirit but also in person, black South Africans could finally muster the unity to do the same. Years of protest and suppression have politicized them as never before and given rise to powerful antiapartheid coalitions. Skillfully led and adequately financed, such organizations could fill South Africa's streets and apply more pressure than the government has yet encountered. The notion that...