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...Dartmouth's victory in game one of the doubleheader yesterday eliminated the intense pressure that game two would have contained if Harvard had held on to win. Regardless, Crockett's no-hitter in game two, a 10-0 slaughter in which Harvard took out its frustration from having lost game one, was as impressive a pitching performance as one will see in college baseball. Crockett faced the minimum 27 batters through his nine innings, allowing no hits and no walks on 85 pitches. Only a second-inning error by Bryan Hale in center field prevented a perfect game...
When the people of East Timor decided 20 months ago to secede from Indonesia, the backlash was swift and horrendous. The Indonesian military, using local militia groups, spearheaded a three-week rampage of pillage and slaughter. The toll: 1,200 dead, wanton destruction of property and a population of survivors traumatized to this...
...Terror Comes From Within At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Its scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation - as well as an astonishingly swift quest for the suspected perpetrators of the slaughter. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred...
...UNITED KINGDOM Restoring Control The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease showed signs of slowing in Britain last week. Only four new cases were confirmed on Friday, leading experts to believe that the pre-emptive slaughter of thousands of animals was bringing the epidemic under control. The encouraging signs caused the government to delay a decision on whether to vaccinate still healthy herds in the most severely affected areas. Prime Minister Tony Blair was under pressure to postpone local elections, called for May 3, until later in the year...
What happened to the bloodbath? After a market-wide slaughter Tuesday - nearly 300 points in the Dow and more than 100 in the NASDAQ - Wednesday suddenly turned into the sell-off that wasn't. The turnaround struck at 10:30 a.m., sending the Dow back from below 9400 up to 9580 at 11:30, with the NASDAQ staging a little bounce...