Word: sams
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With the score tied 3-3, only Harvard freshman Todd Meringoff and Dartmouth's Sam Cook were on the court. Cook won the first set, 6-4, and Meringoff came back to win the second by the same score...
...book and the movie, which stars Sam Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...
...again last week, as the Senate Armed Services Committee held its first round of public hearings on the ban. As with most service personnel, the members of the Senate committee -- who seemed more inclined to lecture than listen -- have long since made up their minds. Although committee chairman Sam Nunn has been one of the harshest critics of Clinton's proposal, he clearly hopes to find a middle ground that won't leave the military badly divided. The word around the Capitol is that after a spring of hearings, the end result will be the compromise imposed -- and hailed again...
...surprising extent, Western aid appears to be buying resentment. One placard waved by demonstrators in Moscow pictured Yeltsin fatuously caressing a cow labeled RUSSIAN FREEDOM, while an evil-looking Uncle Sam milked dollars from the cow's udder. Russians are irritated that so much Western help seemed to be promised and so little appears to have been delivered. And some are suspicious that foreigners are out to swindle them; they resist making their once powerful country look like a Western clone...
Rudenstine stressed his own opposition to the ban on the grounds of fairness in general "I have stated my view on this subject on a number of occasions including recent letters to Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen.. Sam Nunn," he said...