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With 4:33 left in the game, Huskie forward William Njoku knotted the score at 61, with an in-your-face tomahawk slam...
EVERY AUGUST THE EARTH PASSES THROUGH THE orbital path of Comet Swift-Tuttle. If the comet ever happened to be there, the 10-km-wide (6-mile) chunk of ice and rock could slam into the planet, carving an enormous crater, generating tidal waves and throwing up a worldwide pall of dust that could block sunlight for months. Plants would be largely wiped out, and so would many species that ultimately depend on plants for food -- including, perhaps, the human race. Just such a disaster, many scientists believe, killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A smaller strike...
There was one recent hit that I simply had to try out for a Harvard fight song; the title was just asking for it. I discovered that with a little lyric-tampering, Harvard could become the only institution of higher learning with a school song that promotes slam-dancing...
...FEDERAL budget deficit, like an unwelcome guest, back to the center of national debate. Perot, whatever his defects, has offered a credible plan for balancing the budget over five years. The general reaction from the economic graybeards has been: fine idea, but now's not the time. To slam on the fiscal brakes in the midst of a recession, or a shaky recovery, or whatever the heck we're in, would be suicidal. Partisans of the other two candidates have grasped this argument as a defense of their considerably more modest deficit-reduction proposals...
...predicts disastrous tax increases for several average Americans, dubious calculations that senior adviser Charles Black lamely defends as legitimate because the spot claims "only" that such horrors "could" occur, not that they necessarily will.) Bush's team professes delight with Clinton's reflexive counterpunch -- a series of ads that slam the President's fiscal record. "We're already dead meat on the economy," says a Republican operative. "He can't put us in the hole any deeper. He hasn't closed his sale. He's still new in the public's mind. He should be taking the high road, putting...