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After that, it gets confusing. Barring a collapse in its final two games, the red-hot Engineers of Rensselaer should secure second place over the weekend. But with Brown (26 points), Yale (25), Clarkson (25) and St. Lawrence (24) so tightly bunched together, and Brown hosting the latter two this weekend, each team controls its own destiny for slots three through six. Even Vermont, on the road at Cornell and Colgate, could conceivably get to 25 points and end up as high as fourth in the standings...
...major player in any drama -- much less a presidential succession. Described by his colleague and close friend Paul Begala as a guy "well over four feet tall slumming in a jeans jacket with an MTV haircut," he has, at 31, leaped ahead of his elders to be at the red-hot center of the Clinton universe. While everyone knows who he is -- his face is now beamed round the world as transition communications director -- it is hard to figure out how someone so self-effacing ended up where...
...rafter, turned off the light and shut the door. Mark dangled in silence for hours. "God forbid if I cried," he recalls. "I was just like a hanging Everlast bag, you know? Punch me, punch me." When Mark was nine, his father held the boy's hand over a red-hot burner as punishment for moving a book of matches on a bureau. And when he was 15, his dad, angered by a long-distance phone bill, stuck a gun in his son's mouth and "told me he was going to blow my brains...
...version with a barrel 165 yards long. But Western intelligence agents in the Middle East are nervously tracking another design that is much easier to build. Unlike earlier models, the new weapon uses ordinary 1/8-in. bridge wire, a steel fiber common in the construction of suspension bridges. Spun while red-hot around large-diameter steel pipe, the wire strengthens the barrel enough to withstand the pressures of firing long-distance shells. Syria, Libya and other potential users would have no trouble manufacturing such guns...
...This age group is the red-hot center of the revolution," said the prominent feminist. "There is a critical mass of women that are living much longer with a strong tradition of uppitiness and rebellion nurtured by [feminism...