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With a combined 9-24 record across all three weapons (epee, saber and foil), there often hasn't been much to cheer about besides the swordplay of the defending NCAA runner-up in the foil, sophomore Kwame van Leeuwen...
...majestic wings once cast large shadows all over North America. The bird was a survivor. When saber-toothed cats and other big animals died off about 10,000 years ago, the California condor retreated to the carrion-rich Pacific coast and survived. A Spanish priest recorded seeing one in 1602; Lewis and Clark spotted another...
Finally, the Dartmouth Aires had a clean sound, sang an inspired "Jesse's Girl," but lost the audience with their random humor. After watching two members of the group have a metaphysical light-saber duel with kilbasa sausages, the crowd was left waiting for Godot to arrive...
...cold war is over, so why is there so much saber rattling in Britain? When Defense Secretary Tom King announced last week that the British army will be reduced to its smallest fighting strength since 1830, the military reacted with anguished cries. The number of troops will shrink more than 40,000, to about 116,000, and the British Army of the Rhine will be halved. Twenty-two cavalry and infantry regiments -- many in existence for centuries -- will be forced to merge with old rivals...
...briefly detaining five Western consuls, including an American, and spiriting away three French citizens to an unknown location. After calling the incident an "outrageous Iraqi break-in," Bush resisted reporters' efforts to make him issue sweeping threats. "You're trying to get me to sound like I'm rattling sabers," he said. "When I rattle a saber, the man will know...