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TUZLA AIR BASE, BOSNIA: An American soldier was shot and wounded in the left shoulder early today by an intruder at a base in the U.S.-controlled sector of northern Bosnia. A spokesman for the NATO-led peace force said Spc. Shawn Austin is in stable condition. Austin was patrolling the base with one other soldier when they saw the intruder and opened fire. "He challenged the intruder, who in turn fired a shot, which hit the soldier in the left shoulder," Lt. Col. Chuck Merlo said. He did not know what kind of weapon the intruder was carrying...
Every year, one of the magical 14 seeds sneaks into the second round. I'm struggling to find one this season, but the best bet is probably Northern Illinois. The Texas Tech Red Raiders played no quality non-conference opponents and a perfect record in Southwestern conference is no more spectacular then a fifth-place finish in the Big East...
While the Harvard men's hockey team was winning its series in one part of northern New York this past weekend, the Harvard wrestling team was putting together one of its best performances ever in another section...
...having to show people that Harvard lists the names of all Harvard students who have died in various wars, except the southern students who died in the Civil War. This only tells me that Harvard must find those students from the South as somehow inferior or different from their northern classmates...
Other protagonists in the Northern Ireland conflict cautiously came on board and will participate this week in proximity talks styled on the Bosnian discussions in Dayton, Ohio. They intend to work out the details of elections to choose delegates for the all-party negotiations. But even though Major and Bruton set a firm date, June 10, for the full-scale talks, thus fulfilling a key Sinn Fein demand, the I.R.A. seemed determined to stick to its guns--and its bombs. At precisely the same time that Major and Bruton were meeting in London, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams was closeted...