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...that the archbishop seems to be readyinghimself for a showdown, no one is sure how muchhavoc he will play. Wolff said he expects theUniversity to give in rather than face anadministrative crisis...
Freshman defenseman Marton D'Orsonnes scored on a screened shot with three seconds remaining to give Clarkson the edge over St. Lawrence, 3-2, in a north country showdown in Canton, N.Y., Saturday night...
...novel is only marginally about dopers and spoilsport law-enforcement types. The showdown looming in Vineland County serves as the melody for a series of dazzling riffs on the 1970s and early '80s. It comes as a surprise to realize that these generations are the lost ones in Pynchon's fiction. V. (1963) and The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) anticipated but arrived just before the triumphant effulgence of television and youth culture in American life; Gravity's Rainbow was chiefly set during World War II. So Vineland amounts to Pynchon's first words on the way we have been...
...months the fragile Likud-Labor coalition has been heading for a showdown over how Israel should engage the Palestinians. Last week Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir nearly precipitated the crisis by announcing that he was firing Science and Technology Minister Ezer Weizman for holding secret talks with the P.L.O. Israeli policy forbids contact with the P.L.O., but Weizman has long advocated -- and indirectly practiced -- a dialogue. Labor threatened to bolt from the government, but eventually both sides compromised. Labor stayed in, although Weizman was excluded from the foreign-policy-making inner Cabinet...
...favorites who tip off the season with a 2 p.m. showdown at Briggs Cage tomorrow, it's a goal that has proved all too elusive. Dartmouth has not claimed the flag since 1959 and Harvard has never won an Ivy title...