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While B.C. never seriously threatened again, Harvard still received a scare when freshman forward Spencer George suffered an injury while converting on a 50-50 tackle...
When the welfare officers came to take three-year-old Archie Roach from his tin-lined house in Framlingham in southeastern Australia, they told his mother they were escorting him to a picnic. His aunt tried to scare them off with a gun, but it wasn't loaded. Institutionalized in a Melbourne orphanage, young Archie was told his family had died in a fire. His minders tried to force his hair straight, breaking comb teeth in his frizzy curls. It was a vain attempt by whites to make an Aboriginal child more like them. It didn't work...
...Appropriations committee chairman Robert Junell had legislative budget analysts project the costs to the state and made sure each legislator saw the eye-popping numbers: $600 million over two years. Democratic representative Glen Maxey saw the unsolicited analysis as an end run to scare off undecided members. "It's a higher mountain to climb," Maxey told TIME. And he, for one, has little hope of climbing...
...joined Bridgestone straight out of university more than 40 years ago, has spent the better part of the past decade propping up the sagging fortunes of Firestone, the U.S. company Bridgestone paid $2.6 billion for in 1988. Now here he was, the prime suspect in the the biggest consumer scare since the Tylenol-tampering case, linked to at least 88 deaths and 250 injuries in the U.S. alone...
...selection of Lieberman, a devout Orthodox Jew, as Gore's running mate must scare poor Yasser Arafat to death. He may realize he had better strike a deal while Clinton is President because there may not be a better opportunity with Gore and Lieberman. Wouldn't it be ironic if the man who chastised Clinton for his sexual transgressions in the Oval Office became the catalyst for handing the President a much coveted alternative to his impeachment legacy as a Middle East peacemaker and possibly even a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! RENO S. ZACK San Dimas, Calif...