Word: reigns
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...Saturday night, the Dartmouth women’s basketball team came into Lavietes Pavilion and beat Harvard, snapping the Crimson’s 26-game Ivy winning streak and seriously challenging the continuation of its two-year reign as league kingpin...
During his brutal reign as Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein created around himself a legend of physical and political prowess. He demanded that his followers be willing to fight and die for him and acted as though he'd do the same for his country. So when he surrendered to U.S. soldiers without a shot from the pistol at his side, Arab diplomats and journalists say that the once admiring Arab masses were dismayed and embarrassed by his meekness. It suggested that legendary toughness was just that: legend...
Eisner, 61, has crushed numerous revolts in his 19-year reign as chief of the Walt Disney Co., but he has never faced a rebel quite like this--an angry major shareholder who bears the company's name and a deep sense of betrayal by the chief Mouseketeer. Claiming that Eisner made his life "intolerable" at the company, Disney last week resigned from his posts as chairman of the animation division and vice chairman of the board. With his longtime ally, Stanley Gold, who also quit the board, Disney plans to mount a public fight to boot Eisner from...
...post. Tough on Terror GREECE An Athens prosecutor asked a special antiterrorism tribunal to deliver multiple life sentences against six of 15 members of the November 17 terrorist organization, including its leader, Alexandros Yiotopoulos, who were convicted for a series of murders, bombings and robberies during a 27-year reign of terror. Four were acquitted, due to lack of evidence. The court reconvenes this week for sentencing. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Basta! In a protest against "trash TV" - the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime-time schedule - a Milan viewers' association launched...
...proposed modern art museum in the Riverside neighborhood, “if you build it, we’re going to bomb it”—that drove the University from pursuing further expansion in Cambridge; it was the unwillingness of many city council members to reign in those radical elements and work to help find meaningful solutions to Harvard’s space crunch on this side of the river...