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Undermanned but not undeterred, Harvard found the back of the net in the 76th minute of play. Kohler lofted a corner kick in front of the goal for a group of waiting Harvard attackers. Senior Rich Wilmot, positioned at the near post, headed the ball across the mouth of the goal to sophomore Lee Williams. Williams headed the ball into the upper left hand corner of the net, sending the game into overtime tied...
...eight weeks. The first of them had been a routine examination, the kind given every few years to agency employees. Since coming on board in 1980, Nicholson had been quietly but smoothly rising through the agency ranks. Now he was an instructor at Camp Peary, the CIA training facility near Williamsburg, Virginia, teaching new spies what older ones know. For instance, what to do when the other side...
...family, who spoke to Time last week, that image didn't square with the idealistic, spiritual man and devoted father they knew. "Jim's whole life has been a commitment to the U.S. government and to his job," said his father Marvin, a retired Air Force master sergeant living near Eugene, Oregon. "Greed?" asked brother Robert. "That...
Democratic fund raiser John Huang has been out of sight in Washington, but he was practically stalking the President last week in Australia, where Clinton played golf with Greg Norman, ogled the scalloped opera house in Sydney and stomped through a rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where Clinton went to get away, he found himself deflecting questions about Huang and his former boss, Indonesian banker James T. Riady. "Mark Twain said every dog should have a few fleas," the President quipped; "keeps them from worrying so much about being...
...organized kingdom long before the Europeans arrived. A Tutsi god-king headed an elaborate system of civil administration, taxation and military conscription that the Germans and Belgians left largely intact, even as they tightened the screws. When independence came, with a 1959 Hutu revolution, the new rulers inherited a near totalitarian state...