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Brown snapped a five-meeting losing streak by upsetting the University of Rhode Island 32-29 in Kingston, R.I. Brown's Kevin Sharkey ran for 30 yards, caught six passes for 45 yards, and scored a touchdown. The senior running back also tossed a 37-yard touchdown pass to defensive back Joel Elliot off a fake punt...
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...labors of Senate majority leader George Mitchell, who retires this year and turned down an appointment to the Supreme Court in order to push for health reform. Mitchell remains committed to fight for any helpful reform he can get, as does a shrinking band of moderate Republicans led by Rhode Island Senator John Chafee. Ted Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, is one of the diehards. He told TIME, "I've never thought the best should be the enemy of the good." And Ira Magaziner, chief architect of the now abandoned Clinton plan, is gamely working with Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania...
...thing we've just got to keep in our minds is that on any given day anything can happen. We've got to prepare ourselves for that. The only thing we can count on is that the season will be interesting." FIELD HOCKEY September 7 NEW BRUNSWICK 11 RHODE ISLAND 16 at New Hampshire 20 CONNECTICUT 24 at Providence 28 at Springfield October 1 CORNELL 5 at Boston Univ. 8 at Pennsylvania 11 WILLIAM & MARY 15 YALE 19 at Boston College 22 at Princeton 26 NORTHEASTERN 29 DARTMOUTH November 1 BROWN
...Rhode Island effort is not a lone crusade. Citizens are increasingly taking up the environmental battle cry of NIMBY -- not in my backyard! -- and rallying to block former convicts from settling in their communities. Local groups are pressing state assemblies for tougher detention laws and parole conditions. When legislators don't respond quickly enough, citizens take it upon themselves to sound the alert. As a direct result, more and more states are enacting laws that put the interests of the community before the rights of ex-prisoners. The laws, says Patrick Stafford of the Southern Legislative Conference, are "very representative...