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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.—From rout to routed in the span of one game...
Though the championship rout was a disappointing ending to the season, Harvard’s second-place finish exceeded the expectations of many—except, of course, for the team...
...With Saddam's Consent The grim scenes of kidnapping and violence in Iraq [IRAQ, April 19] are a depressing contrast to the rapid rout of Saddam Hussein's troops after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the Gulf War of 1991. Not long after the end of that conflict, however, Saddam was already reasserting his power, as we noted in a March 29, 1993, article. This piece also revealed his barbaric wartime behavior, as detailed in a U.S. government report...
With an NCAA tournament berth and a share of the Ivy title already secured thanks to a win over Yale last Sunday, the Crimson emphatically closed out its league schedule with a 7-0 rout of Dartmouth yesterday afternoon in Hanover...
...year, much higher than the anticipated 8.2% E.U. average and more than double Britain's 4.8% level. But despite the drag of 2.5 million jobless adults on the economy, neither the private nor the public sector seems capable of doing anything about it. Last month's spectacular rout of conservative politicians in regional polls was widely interpreted as an expression of anger over Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform policies, which some see as downright counterproductive. "We'd all rather be working than scrambling to find a job," comments Jean-Michel Florand, one of the victorious Marseilles plaintiffs...