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While extending their unbeaten streak to 10 games, the eight-ranked Terriers were as formidable as expected. The talented B.U. squad played razor sharp hockey, and quickly converted on its scoring opportunites...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Terriers Blank Stickwomen, 3-0 | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

Saddam was so preoccupied with the defense of Kuwait that he did not extend his defensive line of berms, razor wire and mines more than a few miles west of the Kuwait frontier that faces Saudi Arabia. The struggle for Kuwait, he said in January, would finally depend on "the soldier who comes with rifle and bayonet to fight the soldier in the battle trench." In that, he boasted, "we are people with experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Tactics: Could Saddam Have Done Better? | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

...Good! Good!" Brown shouts, trying to encourage the timid. The scraping of razor-sharp blades on ice continues as Brown reminds the students about that all too important law of gravity: "Don't get too far forward, alright? Otherwise it's kissing-the-ice time...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: A Bruised Bottom Never Hurt Anyone | 2/23/1991 | See Source »

...behind layers of defensive barriers 40 miles wide. Bulldozers have piled sand walls up to 40 ft. high. Behind them is a network of ditches, some rigged with pipes to deliver oil that will be set on fire, and concrete tank traps. Behind those are miles of razor wire and at least 500,000 mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategy: Saddam's Deadly Trap | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith. Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could be." By the end of her razor- edged narrative, Smith has cut her subject down to where he would have trouble filling a 12-in. screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of '90: Books | 12/31/1990 | See Source »

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