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These strategies will be especially important against the formidable opposition of Columbia and Penn. Each team will be looking for that slight edge in the closing innings...
...weather proved to be a major factor; although Harvard held a slight "home-field advantage," having played at Duxbury on several occasions this season, the Crimson was not prepared to play in such cold conditions following a spring break trip to California. Conversely, Yale, which had travelled to Scotland, adapted much more easily to the adverse climate...
...PRESIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGN BATTLEGROUND SHIFTS TO Washington, Tom Daschle seems an odd candidate for the role he is about to play as President Clinton's first line of defense on Capitol Hill. A slight and boyish-looking man of 48, he had never managed a major bill before becoming Senate Democratic leader last year. Almost incapable of eye-to-eye engagement with the television camera, he prefers to read his speeches, softly and deliberately, from behind a pair of glasses. "He looks like a choirboy," sighs veteran South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, a fire breather...
...definitely affect the beef trade," says TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. "The continental European countries are now trying to figure out a way of curtailing the import of UK beef and the whole process will have to be reviewed to comply with European Union trade regulation." Hillenbrand reports that the slight change in the British stance has other European countries infuriated. The British government had always contended that there was no link between beef consumption and CJD. British scientists now maintain that while humans cannot contract the bovine disease, the consumption of beef from cattle bearing the disease...
Advancing issues led decliners by a slight margin on Wall Street, but the Dow Jones industrial average was down 28.54 to close at 5,626.88. Volume was light. The America Stock Exchange market Value index gained 1.05 to 568.32, but other broad-market indicators were down. The NYSE composite index was off 0.14 to close at 348.06; The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index was down 1.78 to 649.20; and the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.68 to 1,100.14. Gold at the London late fixing was selling...