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...single out one game in which Stauffer excelled the most, it would have to be her performance against Princeton in the home finale on October 22. Stauffer scored three goals and assisted on two others in only 50 minutes of play during a 7-0 rout of the Tigers...
...suffering the sort of atrocities the Serbs had inflicted on the 42,000 residents of Srebrenica two weeks before. (A U.N. commission accused Mladic and Radovan Karadzic of genocide last week.) The New York Times reported Bosnian claims that the Serbs had used some sort of gas attack to rout the last of Zepa's defenders, but details of the assault could not be confirmed...
While the Brazilians paid lip service to the Americans before their semifinal match, most felt the same way that Brazil's TV Globo sportscaster Galvao Bueno did. "This is going to be rout," Bueno told viewers. Indeed, it looked as if he might be right in the 13th minute, when Juninho feathered a free kick from the left side of the penalty area and Aldair broke free to head the ball past Friedel. But Brazil would never score again. And the U.S., which seemed tentative and tired in the first half, picked up the pace in the second. When Brazilian...
Round Rock is just one of 13 Texas school districts where moderates have prevailed over religious-right candidates in recent elections. And the rout of ultraconservatives in Texas mirrors the results of school-board elections last November in two key districts in California and Florida. While there is little evidence so far that the movement is spreading fast throughout America's 15,025 school boards, there are signs that moderates, many of whom stayed home when the first wave of ultraconservatives marched into office three years ago, are now mobilizing themselves. "If you have a really active group [of moderate...
...water politicking as to his seamanship. His clout with yacht-club cronies led to a new interpretation of the rules, allowing him to replace a broken keel with a better model. Hours before the last semifinals race, in which he would have been eliminated in a 5-min. rout by the mostly women's team aboard Mighty Mary, Conner negotiated a deal to turn the two-boat finals into a three-boat series. In his last finals race, Conner must have cut a deal with an even higher authority: his Stars & Stripes found a mysterious breeze that allowed...