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...Hartwick dominated from the outset, speeding away for a 14-5 win. The loss sent the Crimson to the third-place game against Connecticut College, and Harvard extended its season record against the Camels to 3-0 with...
...From the outset, the government of President Belisario Betancur Cuartas refused to negotiate. Within minutes of the takeover, Bolívar Plaza was teeming with soldiers and police. Armored cars arrived with sirens blaring. The Colombian army and paramilitary police units responded with a fury that the newspaper El Tiempo called "the most spectacular counter-guerrilla operation in contemporary times." Said one journalist who was at the scene: "It was total...
...From the outset, the showdown threatened to topple Israel's 14-month-old "national unity" government. The crisis began early in the week when Israeli Minister for Industry and Trade Ariel Sharon publicly accused Prime Minister Shimon Peres of "unparalleled cynicism" in his handling of secret Middle East peace negotiations. Two days later Peres struck back. His ultimatum: Sharon would either have to apologize for the verbal assault or face dismissal, a move that would almost certainly dissolve the coalition government and probably force new elections. Sharon testily countered by offering up a brief "apology." Enraged, Peres dismissed the gesture...
Hyman also said that the Joint Committee on Inspections, a monitoring board made up of members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers and led by Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58, had some reservations about the grant from the outset...
...indeed a many-sided man, but always a holy one. "He took it to another level," was how one Vatican official put it. While I salute Jordan and Marguerite, who brought TIME's coverage in Rome to another level, I'm set to cover this papacy from the outset. I will make sure to keep one foot in the bookstore and the other in the piazza - and do my best to miss neither the story, nor the experience...