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Harvard boasts a league-second-best .957 fielding percentage, and has shaken off the defensive rust that plagued it early in the season. Dartmouth lags not far behind with a .953 fielding percentage, though, and since every run will take on greater importance this weekend, the defense is more important than ever...
...anyone caring for tigers to ever go onto the exhibit area," said Zoo General Curator James Doherty. "As best as I can see, she had a lapse in concentration." While Burke might be able to provide some insight into Silverman's actions, she was said to be too shaken to talk about...
Last September French officials belatedly admitted that unnamed secret-service frogmen had carried out the attack, in which a photographer died, to keep the ship from protesting French nuclear tests on the Pacific atoll of Mururoa. The incident had badly shaken the administration of Socialist President François Mitterrand and forced the abrupt departures of two senior government officials. Last week's hearing was expected to reveal new details in the convoluted affair...
...church that Kimball leaves behind is expansive and rich (rumored annual contributions: nearly $1 billion). But lately, it has been shaken by the mysterious bombing murders of two people connected with the sale of historical documents that cast doubts on official teachings about the origins of the Book of Mormon. Some Mormons are also anxious about the intentions of Benson, the 13th Prophet-President. A wavemaking, pepper-tongued right-winger, Benson acquired some notoriety in the 1960s for praising the John Birch Society and calling the civil rights movement Communist influenced. Other Benson targets: the U.N., the Supreme Court...
Berlusconi Adjusts His Set Last week the government of Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was in crisis. His center-right coalition, shaken by overwhelming losses in regional elections earlier this month and bitter debate over the leader's tax and economic policies, began to disintegrate: one Deputy Prime Minister, Marco Follini, resigned and withdrew his ministers from the Cabinet, raising the possibility of early elections. But financially, Berlusconi the media tycoon had a great week: his family's holding company announced the sale of 197 million shares in the Mediaset group - which owns all three of Italy's major...