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...Patterson was the offense. The Big Green came into the contest tied with the Crimson for the Ivy League lead and was riding a 15-game Ivy win streak. Patterson's stunning performance--accounting for 21 of his team's 24 points--put his team in the driver's seat for the Ivy League race...
...weeks before the 1996 election, Democrat Bill Yellowtail was in a neck-and-neck race for Montana's only House seat when a TV ad swooped out of the Big Sky. "Who is Bill Yellowtail?" it opened. "He preaches family values, but he took a swing at his wife." Yellowtail lost. A year later he's still trying to figure out who really took a swing at him. The ad's sponsor was a nonprofit group with a do-gooder name, Citizens for Reform. But the deeper mystery was how the organization knew to air a domestic incident more than...
...stockholders approve the deal, the new combination would become the largest lodging company in the world, with 650 hotels in 70 countries and total annual revenues of more than $10 billion. As for Araskog, 65, under the plan he will step down next year and get a seat on Starwood's board plus a consolation prize: a $55 million severance package that was designed as part of ITT's "defense" against a takeover...
...Kyoto meeting fast approaching, that the President decided he had to get behind mandatory restrictions of greenhouse emissions, not just voluntary targets as set out in the 1992 treaty. Says White House spokesman Mike McCurry: "He wanted to have a negotiating position that would at least get him a seat at the table." Figuring out how to do it, though, has been one of Clinton's toughest policy decisions, partly because there was such a deep split among his advisers. Environmental advocates clearly favored more drastic action, but economic aides warned that forcing companies to spend money on trimming emissions...
JUNE 25, 1 P.M. Vasili Tsibliyev sorely wanted to leave the bridge. His ship was damaged; his crew was alone; and it was safe to assume that this, the ground's second experiment with seat-of-the-pants flying, was over...