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...wrote to Sanchez as often as eight times a year in neatly penned, grammatical Spanish. Ted wrote mostly of his poverty and isolation. With a mathematician's precision he described his finances down to the penny. "As to my poverty, I have $53.01 exactly, barely enough to stave off hunger this winter without eating rabbits." At Christmastime 1994, Ted sent Sanchez an intricately carved wooden tube marked with a Latin motto, Montana Semper Liberi (Mountain Men Are Always Free...
...watched this game, you would have seen speed-demon mid-fielder and captain Pat Marvin streak from one end of the field to the other, shaking off Catamounts like mosquitoes and score unassisted. You would have seen goalie Rob Lyng stave off a three-shot assault brilliantly with a couple of seconds to go in the second period. You would also have seen skillful stick smashing checks by stingy Harvard defenders who only allowed three goals and almost no penetration into the crease...
Perhaps it is inevitable that Deep Blue or its progeny will become the world chess champion. But let us stave off the future a few moments longer. Let us keep the world within the grasp of an individual. Kasparov, all of humanity is behind...
...last-ditch effort to stave off the impending renovations of the Freshman Union, a group of alums met in Mass. Hall on Monday afternoon with President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp...
...need to lift the debt ceiling to gain leverage in budget negotiations; the Administration had an equal interest in casting the Republicans as reckless for holding the nation's credit hostage to "extreme" demands. Both sides, however, were quietly counting on Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to stave off an actual default through internal bookkeeping changes--and last Wednesday he came through. He used an arcane process called "disinvestment," which enabled him to shift tens of billions of dollars from two interest-bearing retirement funds into accounts that earn no interest. Then he extended ious guaranteeing federal workers that the principal...