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Despite the absence of key players--Lisa Yadao missed Saturday's action because of the MCAT's and Kristin Fowler sat out because of a leg injury--the young Crimson squad pulled together to defeat the University of Rhode Island, 2-0, in its season opener...
...nearby Rhode Island, Gregory Schmellick, 49, is also struggling to get back on his feet. Schmellick was laid off in June as vice president of Resource Conservation Systems, an installer of energy-saving equipment that saw its orders vanish when ailing utilities canceled rebate programs aimed at encouraging conservation. Schmellick now wants to change careers. But, he says, "every industry is sitting on the fence. Demands for services are not picking up. People are afraid to venture out because they don't know if another Hurricane Bob is coming through. They are hunkered down and waiting...
...have encouraged the crackdown. "The Yugoslav generals got the idea that the West did not care about the declarations of independence," says Wolf Oschlies, a policy analyst at the Federal Institute for International Studies in Cologne. "So they attacked." Not only right-wing conservatives but even liberal democrats like Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell asked the White House to give more support to the embattled republics. "The U.S. would not be true to its national values if it did not line up foursquare in support of democracy," said Pell. "It would be better if the Yugoslav peoples could find...
...next month's convention, an official commission, chaired by Rhode Island's Bishop George Hunt, is proposing that the church endorse the view that homosexuality is a "God-given" state and that gay relationships are "holy, life-giving and grace-filled." The panel wants the church to develop blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples and allow local bishops to ordain actively homosexual clergy...
Perhaps the most bizarre part of their week turned out to be the only planned segment--attendance at Saturday's Commencement proceedings of the Rhode Island School of Design, where Wilson's mother was graduating...