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...stifling defense we had been used to all season, Harvard was unable to slow the Bears attack. Brown guard Omari Ware exploded for seven straight points and the Bears jumped out to a quick 12-2 lead. Adding to Harvard's early sieve-like defense, the Crimson fouled with reckless abandon...
...slid past MICHAEL DUKAKIS. It started on election night when Dukakis, not previously known as a scorching comet of unrestrained passion, told the Washington Post that if Nader cost Al Gore the election, "I'll strangle the guy with my bare hands." Nader demanded an apology, saying Dukakis was "reckless" and "out of control." "I was trying to be funny," Dukakis told the Boston Globe. "You have to have a sense of humor in this business." Responded Nader: "I have done Saturday Night Live four times. Who says I don't have a sense of humor?" Dukakis tried...
...verge of a greedfest like the reckless '80s, a period that youngsters may be surprised to learn was far more rapacious than anything served up during the Internet bubble. But change is in the air, and the wolves have their noses up. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cut interest rates for the second time in less than a month. The rate cuts make it cheaper to borrow, a must in almost all buyouts that aren't stock swaps...
...Sharon is likely to jam the brakes on the frenzied peace talks of the weeks leading up to the election, his victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process, rather than its cause. The Likud leader had campaigned against what he saw as Ehud Barak's reckless handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, and has made no secret of the fact that he plans a major rewind of the peace process - his message to the Palestinians has been to disregard any offers made by the Barak government. Rather than trying to finalize a peace agreement, Sharon...
...Hambali Nurjaman, can probably be explained by Indonesia's complicated and unstable politics. First, Indonesia has enough turmoil to deal with, from separatist movements to communal massacres. President Megawati Sukarnoputri rules atop an unwieldy coalition of interests, and the last thing she wants to be known for is a reckless crackdown on Islamic groups. "Megawati's government is afraid of arousing Muslim sentiment if anyone is taken in without enough proof," says Hamid Basyaib, a researcher at the Akasara Foundation think tank. And many of those Islamic groups have friends or even founders in high places in the government...