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...16th annual women's Beanpot Tournament was different than Beanpots past: Boston University recently dropped women's hockey to club-sport status, leaving only Harvard, Northeastern, and Boston College to contend for the premier Boston-area women's hockey trophy...
...Civil War legend. Stonewall Jackson's bold successes obscured his failures and his death shortly before Gettysburg left him an unblemished hero and martyr for the Confederacy. Robert E. Lee, the commander and gentleman who is generally considered one of history's greatest generals, gradually surpassed Jackson as the premier hero of the Old South. "The singular figure in the army who stands in history's shadows," Wert explains, "is Longstreet." His conservatism in battle and his rightful blaming of Lee for Gettysburg left him an uninspiring if not undesirable memory for the former Confederacy...
...Regettabar-in the Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, Cambridge; 937-4020. In the past couple of years, the R'Bar has established itself as the premier jazz club in the area. Their annual jazz festival is packed full of big names and amazing talent Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, and John McLaughlin will all be playing here in the next couple of months...
...manages. Li Mei is your eldest female cousin, she's 22 and works at the bank. your eldest cousin, my brother, had to work so he's not here. Li Gan is 21 just like you and is a student at Overseas Chinese University. Li Peng, we call her Premier, because her name is the same as the premier's, is 17. Da-Wan is 16 and still in school. Your uncle, who is your father's little brother, and cousin Chong-Yi are following us in a car. Chong-Yi's 18 and wants to be an engineer...
Sachs said his resignation was prompted by the January 20 appointment of two strident anti-reformers to Yeltsin's cabinet, who replaced Sachs' key allies within the cabinet, Vice Premier Yegor Gaidar and Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov...