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This does not mean that Gorbachev will prevail or even endure. Perestroika has committed one of the most dangerous sins in politics: it has raised expectations more than living standards. Although the reforms Gorbachev has wrought can never be completely reversed, they could be suppressed by a retrograde regime. The result would be a surly Soviet Union that could threaten the world with its bulk and brawn while it seethed about the sclerotic state of its Third World economy and its inability to escape the tentacles of an ideology that does not satisfy the basic needs of 285 million people...
...expected showdown between Harvard freshman Mike Zimmerman and the more experienced senior from Penn, Mitch Speigel, never materialized, with Zimmerman relying on strong service returns and beautiful passing shots to prevail in straight sets...
...Harvard team believed in themselves, and they proved the critics wrong who said a team from the East could never win the national title. They said the players from Cambridge could not take a hit, that they were not big enough, that they could not prevail in the corners where games are won and lost. They said that they were not tough enough to do it. But they were wrong...
Harvard's momentum faltered in the second game as the Eagles' outside hitters overcame a shaky Crimson defense to prevail...
With Democrats holding a 55-45 majority in the Senate, Republicans can ill-afford any defections from their own ranks if Bush is to prevail in the first high-stakes political showdown of his five-week-old presidency...