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Although Harvard finished fifth, sixth and 12thin its only fall tournaments, there were hints ofpotential. After a nightmarish first day at theDartmouth Invitational, for instance, Harvarderupted in the next round with score of 296, withevery Crimson golfer breaking the 80-stroke mark.That second-day surge boosted Harvard to onlythree points behind league-foe Dartmouth and intoa respectable fifth place in the 12-team field...
This story is not about the Africa you think you know. The usual images are painted in the darkest colors. At the end of the 20th century, we are repeatedly reminded, Africa is a nightmarish world where chaos reigns. Nothing works. Poverty and corruption rule. War, famine and pestilence pay repeated calls. The land, air, water are raped, fouled, polluted. Chronic instability gives way to lifelong dictatorship. Every nation's hand is out, begging aid from distrustful donors. Endlessly disappointed, 740 million people sink into hopelessness...
...raised the fundamental question of the 1960s: Who has authority, and why? Six months later, the question was posed again in Dallas, when the squeeze of a trigger snuffed out the life of the world's most powerful man--the ultimate attack on authority. Kennedy's assassination began a nightmarish string that ended with the 1968 slayings of King and Robert Kennedy. Great leaders were called, great leaders were murdered, and great cities burned, baby, burned. And through it all, Vietnam was blazing too, an unwinnable, unfathomable, undeclared war that claimed 57,605 American lives in exchange for--what...
What President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky may or may not have done does not interest me in the least [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 2]. The Orwellian qualities and nightmarish implications of the investigation and the media coverage make me sick. An independent counsel is allowed to spend years and more than $30 million of the taxpayers' money and use underhanded methods like taping close friends. Yet all this results in something that is not proved and is very, very private. Then the media jump on the story as if it were the start of World...
Most lawmakers are focused on a nightmarish vision in which billionaires and celebrities flood the world with genetic copies of themselves. But scientists say it's unlikely that anyone is going to be churning out limited editions of Michael Jordan or Madeleine Albright. "Oh, it can be done," says Dr. Mark Sauer, chief of reproductive endocrinology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. "It's just that the best people, who could do it, aren't going to be doing...