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...Harvard should be right back in there to win the ECAC again," he added. "I expect to be going to Lake Placid [N.Y.] for the [NCAA] Final Four...
...difficult choice for Coach Dave Peterson to pick Bourbeau, either. Bourbeau had to skip the Olympic Festival, the team's offcial tryout camp, last summer because of an injured shoulder. But, as he had been promised, Bourbeau was granted a private tryout the following week in Lake Placid, and Peterson quickly added the Falmouth native to his roster...
...usually sold in more menacing surroundings. On the Zeedijk, a narrow enclosed street near the central railroad station where few residents walk after dark, peddlers sidle up to passersby, within sight of policemen patrolling in pairs. On Dam Straat, Amsterdam's other notorious drug row, a span over a placid canal dubbed the "pill bridge" served as the main bazaar for illicit prescription narcotics until police cracked down recently...
Indeed, deregulation has turned industries upside down and whipsawed consumer emotions like no other economic trend in recent history. Airlines, banks, telephone companies and trucking lines, among others, have all been transformed from placid, tightly regulated industries into volatile hotbeds of competition. Many of the results have been glowing examples of a free market at work: lower prices, greater efficiency and more choices for consumers. "Across the board, we are much better off with deregulation than without it," says Paul MacAvoy, dean of the graduate school of management at the University of Rochester...
Prosperous and calm, Panama has long been an anchor of stability in turbulent Central America. But despite the placid facade, resentment has been building against a corrupt and authoritarian government. Last week that anger burst to the surface in some of the worst violence to hit Panama in a decade. The unrest was prompted by a serious allegation, that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, 48, commander of the Panama Defense Forces and the country's most powerful figure, helped arrange the 1981 air-crash death of his predecessor, General Omar Torrijos Herrera...