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...since the higher-seeded Yale is expected by pollsters to cop its third straight Ivy title outright, the Crimson's position in the national rankings would not change that much with a loss today. The Harvard squad, already virtually guaranteed an NCAA tournament bid, has been cast into a position where it has everything to win and nothing to lose...
...says Monty Lobb Jr., president of Citizens for Community Values. "The gallery is open to the public; it's on public land and receives taxpayers' money." As a result of the pressure, the chairman of the gallery's board stepped down from his post and another board member quit outright...
Some Estonians have concerns about the brash way in which Lithuania declared outright independence, but sympathy with the decision is widespread. Says Enn- Arno Sillari, First Secretary of the independent Estonian Communist Party: "I'd like to think the Lithuanians are paving the way for us." The Estonians prefer to take more measured steps toward sovereignty. Instead of a complete break with Moscow, the Supreme Soviet two weeks ago called for an unspecified transition period leading to "the formation of the constitutional institutions of the Republic of Estonia...
...runoff elections scheduled for April 8. But the first-round results made clear the country's overwhelming preference for two center-right parties, the Hungarian Democratic Forum (25% of the vote) and the Alliance of Free Democrats (21%). Since neither of the front runners is likely to win an outright majority in the next round, talks to stitch together a governing coalition with the Independent Smallholders' Party and other parties quickly got under...
Since most Japanese feel their country has made ample attempts to open its marketplace to U.S. goods, the increasingly noisy drumbeats from Washington have created fear that the bilateral relationship is faltering. "There is a great deal of concern about the outright hostility in Washington that exists against Japan," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economist. "Americans don't seem to care about this, but it is paramount in Japan." Trade negotiators reached an agreement last week to allow Japanese universities and government agencies to import U.S. supercomputers. But the two sides have made little progress so far in related talks...