Word: nation
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...tournament was the first of the season for the relatively young team, which faces an uphill climb in trying to repeat last year's success. The 1998-99 team went 22-5 (7-0 Ivy), finished No. 19 in the nation and was led by James Blake, the nation's No. 1 player. Blake left Harvard after last season to turn...
...Hampshire, the first primary state in the nation, door to door campaigning has an "almost mystical" significance, according to Shaun Kelleher, the Bradley campaign's New England college coordinator...
With both candidates devoting considerable energy to winning the state's primary--the nation's first--college students are the infantry in the battle for this crucial state. The Bradley campaign is calling the upcoming Columbus Day weekend "College weekend," and hoping to flood the state with young supporters...
Fearing the worst, officials ordered some 3 million residents to leave the shoreline in Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. The largest such evacuation in the nation's history, it created a media frenzy and massive traffic jams, including a backup on Florida's Interstate 10 that stretched 200 miles. Walt Disney World, near Orlando, failed to open for the first time in its history. At the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, only a skeleton crew of volunteers was left behind to watch over launch pads and hangared space shuttles, each worth a couple of billion dollars...
...getting burned for its handling of the 1993 showdown in Waco with followers of David Koresh [NATION, Sept. 6]. If the FBI has lied repeatedly about what happened in Waco, can it be trusted to tell the truth when it testifies against members of the Waco cult? Juries are expected to assume the honesty of the FBI and other law-enforcement agencies. The repeated lies of the FBI in Waco have made its credibility go up in smoke. ROBERT NEMOYER Bridgeview...