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...what looked to be a portent of good things to come, it spanked Columbia, a team given a preseason ranking of 13 by Soccer America...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Title Not in Cards | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Perhaps the best portent from last week was Rabin's repeated insistence that Israel would continue talking peace with the Palestinians even in the face of such a frightening and grisly assault. Although Israeli confidence in the virtues of accommodation with the Palestinians has been shaken, Hamas may have actually improved the prospects for peace by laying down a challenge the Israelis can only answer. "We can't afford to grant them the satisfaction of stopping the talks," says Health Minister Ephraim Sneh. "We have to defeat them, not surrender to their demands." That may entail accepting a less perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torch of Terrorism | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

...team's opener, a convincing 11-5 win over Brandies, might have been a portent of the team's imminent success, but it wasn't until the second meet of the season, a triangular with Columbia and Princeton on December 4, that the team knew that it had the talent to put forth a ground-breaking season...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Women Fencers Have Best Year in Memory | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...party loses regional election -- a portent of its national demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Mar. 28, 1994 | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...able to really assess Clinton'sinaugural until we see him in retrospect," saidVanderbilt University professor Erwin Hargrove."Inaugurals are a portent for the futurepresidency...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Speech Evokes Kennedy Legacy | 1/21/1993 | See Source »

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