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Harvard's main task against Holy Cross will be to contain the potent Crusader attack. Senior quarterback Tom Ciaccio has generated 791 yards in the air, including four touchdowns, so far this year, and is on target to become the Crusaders' all-time leading quarterback...
Quarterback Willie McMillian leads the Cadets' one-dimensional, but curiously potent, offense. In two games, he has carried the ball 50 times, collecting 308 yards and four touchdowns...
...David Broder, Harkin is "the candidate of Bush's nightmares." Business Week calls him a "populist who is raring to sink a pitchfork into the patrician hide of George Bush." The New York Times reports that the 51-year-old Iowa senator "offers his beleaguered party a potent mix of old-time religion, prairie populism and group therapy...
...Soviet military-security apparatus tried to use ominously rumbling, fume-belching columns of tanks and APCs to bring Moscow to submission, but proved no more potent than the Wizard of Oz. The communist system by last week had reached such an advanced state of debility that the brain was no longer capable of sending commands to the limbs. What most Soviets will remember about "Acting President" Gennadi Yanayev is his trembling hands as he tried to explain himself on television...
...might be a drugstore. Six of the latest hot health foods are common, garden-variety foodstuffs, from garlic to celery and -- sorry, George Bush -- broccoli, that show uncommon potential for preventing cancer, heart disease and other illnesses. Scientists are only beginning to appreciate the way that common plants store potent chemical compounds that may block the body's synthesis of carcinogens or decrease cholesterol levels in the blood. "We're finally catching up with what vegetarians and health-food nuts believed all along," says Jon Michnovicz, medical director of New York City's Institute for Hormone Research. Researchers caution that...