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Last Saturday three Harvard students, or "boards" as they are called in chess circles, managed to squeak by Yale at the annual Harvard-Yale chess tournament in the common room of Yale's Timothy Dwight College...
...Taurus by tearing down and analyzing some 14 competitive models in a windowless basement room at the Ford Design Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Their brutally frank internal review found numerous faults with the Taurus and many superior features in the competition. "We needed major improvements in squeak and rattle performance and engine noises that came with wide-open acceleration," recalls George Bell, the chief engineer. "There was a tendency of the car to loosen up, and we clearly needed to improve points in steering and handling confidence...
...Americans right in the middle of the hottest war today," Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.) said in today's debate. But a growing number of Republicans and Democrats believe that the U.S. must side with Bosnia's Muslim government against the Serbs.TIME correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the resolution will likely squeak through the Senate; if so, President Clinton could stop the action only by vetoing the foreign aid bill to which it is attached. Lifting the embargo, McAllister says, could lead to "a huge mess in Bosnia. First, the Serbs would probably step up their attacks. Many more U.S. troops would...
...fashioned notion--the catalog to the Bruce Nauman retrospective, currently at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, has a human ear on its cover. And indeed, no show was ever noisier. Go in, and you hit a wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes...
...Liston to add these two points to his agenda in the coming year: First, clean up your act. Make your presidency answerable to your predecessor's "No Scandal Guarantee." Gain some legitimacy in the eyes of your constituents so that maybe you can do more than throw dances and squeak at meetings of the Committee on House Life...