Word: showdown
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Brown, a veteran of two Tournaments as a Harvard assistant, had a somewhat different perspective. Brown and Pemper are a great deal more familiar with the NCAA showdown...
...Wednesday's suggestion that Ken Starr might be close to wrapping things up by calling the President to testify, Thursday sees a likely second appearance by Bruce Lindsey. The presidential aide came close to citing executive privilege last time round -- if he does it for real, a long, convoluted showdown in the courts may begin...
Kennedy shattered those illusions. He did it with a series of dramatic decisions that swiftly brought the U.S. to a showdown not with Fidel Castro but with Khrushchev's own Soviet Union...
With this optimism, Harvard now prepares for a showdown tomorrow night against Wellesley, and the Ivy League Invitational hosted by Harvard this coming weekend...
...Russia - Iraq still owes Russia billions of dollars for weapons and is eager to cut huge oil deals with the former Soviet patron. Not surprisingly, it's leading the diplomatic effort to avoid any military showdown and is eager to see the sanctions lifted...