Word: patriot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kraft said he knew he had been beaten when he woke up one morning and found the Patriot mascot's head lying...
Number 45 Bahnhofstrasse is an imposing building in central Zurich. Its monumental columns are topped by the sculpted heads of a peasant patriot, a mother, the god Mercury and William Tell, the mythic Swiss hero. This secular temple is the main branch of the Union Bank of Switzerland. Inside, there are acres of reddish brown Tessin marble. The ornate overhead moldings frame a 20-ft. by 30-ft. skylight. A uniformed guard approaches: "Who are you? What are you doing? Identification papers, please." Is this brusque aggressiveness necessary? "I am only following orders," he says in German...
...league championship pairings are set, but it certainly isn't the same old crowd. After Sunday's games, in which defending champ Dallas lost to the expansion Carolina Panthers, 26-17, and the Pittsburgh Steelers were flattened by the New England Patriots 28-3, both of last year's Super Bowl teams were out of the hunt. "It's a new order in the NFL," said Panthers linebacker Kevin Greene, "and I'm tickled to death about it." No matter how next week's matchups turn out, this year's Super Bowl will be the first since 1991 without either...
...mimicking President Clinton, the training ground for professional bureaucrats and policy junkies has abandoned its liberal foundations in search of a more "inclusive" public persona, or at least one which isn't so unappetizing to the likes of the blubbered blatherer Rush Limbaugh and the prostitute-cum-patriot Oliver North...
That could be an interesting game, as Patriot-Leaguer Lafayette handed Princeton its first defeat of the season, a 3-2 upset on October 9. Unlike the Ivies, however, the Patriot League has a tournament to decide its champion, so the Leopards may not be the league's ambassador...