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Dartmouth goalkeeper Vern Guetens, who registered 35 saves, came up big to keep the game close early. But it was only a matter of time before the fiery Harvard offense would prevail...
...battle is the payoff, as the ancient saying goes, and only battle can settle the question of what a war between the U.S.-led alliance and Iraq would be like. Would it be a brief though explosive clash in which American air power would quickly prevail with relatively light casualties? A long, grinding struggle on the ground with the killed and wounded on both sides counted in the scores of thousands? Or something in between...
...Thursday, Thatcher broke the news to Energy Minister John Wakeham, who had served exactly one day as her campaign manager. (Thatcher had angrily dismissed his predecessor, who had assured her she would prevail handily in the first round.) At 8:45 she notified the Queen of her decision by telephone. Then, 15 minutes later, she entered the Cabinet room and informed the rest of her colleagues. In light of the back-room battles that shook the Conservative Party and the hypocritical talk about loyalty and harmony, Thatcher's written statement was a model of clarity: "Having consulted widely among colleagues...
...obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex...It is the masculine values that prevail...
...women voters favor female candidates? The evidence on that score is spotty. Issues seem to prevail over chromosomes when a conservative Republican woman runs against a liberal man. There is no debate on one statistic: women are voting in proportion to their actual numbers, and there are several million more of them than there are men. Thus candidates are under pressure to spy the difference between the lenses that men and women train on politics...