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Maybe Brown did. It was the Bears' defeat at the hands of Dartmouth, 90-78, which destroyed any sliver of hope they may have had to edge out the Crimson for the title...
Left with only a 30-foot by six-foot sliver of land, the owner attempted to sell the property to a neighbor, but the neighbor was not interested, Hardina said...
...Gross," says Chad White Face, 11, as he forces down a warm sliver...
Territory. The thorniest issue of all--and an area where remarkable progress has been made. The first break came when Tudjman and Milosevic agreed that control over Eastern Slavonia, the sliver of Croatia ruled by rebel Serbs since 1991, would revert to Zagreb's control in a year or, under certain conditions, two. That was followed by a compromise on the cornerstone issue: Sarajevo. It will remain, at least in name, an "undivided city'' (as the Muslims demand), but it will be partitioned into nine self-governing ethnic zones. Each zone can have its own official language, its own education...
...session, Christopher visited the private quarters of each to chide them about actions their countries might take that could derail the talks. He warned Tudjman not to undercut Bosnia's Croat-Muslim federation and told him point-blank to knock off the brinkmanship over eastern Slavonia, the hotly contested sliver of Croatia still controlled by rebel Serbs. The Secretary instructed Izetbegovic to keep his distance from the media and told Milosevic that his failure to do anything about ongoing atrocities by his proxies, the Bosnian Serbs, was unacceptable...