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Success is nothing new for the Hemenway racqueteers. The men's teams have won 29 titles, including seven in the last decade. Since 1983, when women's champions were first crowned, Harvard has claimed four titles--including the three under Piltch's four-year reign...
...There's really not a reign of terror, but this is not because of any goodwill on the part of the leadership," says Professor of Sociology Andrew G. Walder...
...diplomats negotiated their shameful and shameless deals, Cambodians were paying a fearful price: hundreds of thousands died between 1970 and 1975, when Cambodia became a theater of the Vietnam War, a million or more (out of a population of 7 million) in the Khmer Rouge's ensuing four-year reign of terror...
...chief architect of the miracle was the quiet-spoken Senate majority leader, George Mitchell of Maine. Starting during the reign of Ronald Reagan, who once professed to believe that some air pollution was caused by trees, Mitchell has tried to get a clean-air bill into law. After Bush claimed during his election campaign that he was a devoted environmentalist, Mitchell devised a strategy to hold the President to his rhetoric. First he waited for Bush to make his own proposals on pollution controls last July. Then he rammed a much tougher version through the Senate Environment and Public Works...
...government has fallen eight times. Belgians have instead looked to their monarch, Baudouin, for stability -- until last week, when the King became a commoner for two days. Confronted with a bill passed by parliament that legalized abortion, Baudouin, a devout Roman Catholic, had the Cabinet declare him unable to reign so he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Cabinet promulgated the law instead...