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...doubt improving those chances for victory on the Senate floor was the steep and treacherous climb McCain-Feingold still faces on the Hill. What has McCain won? A long and bitter rematch in the House, where Dennis Hastert and Dick Gephardt are both starting to stammer and Tom DeLay is loaded for bear. Shays-Meehan, McCain-Feingold's House doppleganger, always cruised when it had nowhere to go - now the knives will be drawn. And if the twin bills don't match up exactly when they're through - down to the last amendment? McCain gets a reconciliation fight, with...
Once we were under way, zigzagging paths up steep slopes generally demanded the group ride in single file atop sheer shale ridges. Upon breaching a pass, we stopped for lunch, while the support trucks and mobile kitchen took the low road. As we rode, the pure air was scented with wild mint and garlic brushed by the horses' hooves. The grunt of a yak, a marmot whistle or a bird's wing-beat carried undisturbed across the valley...
...Crimson (23-9-0, 20-4-0 ECAC) will face steep competition. Harvard starts its weekend against No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth Friday night at the University of Minnesota's spacious new 10,000 seat Mariucci Arena...
...least, the Crimson faces a steep challenge this week in its attempt to win the first-ever NCAA women's hockey championship and its second national title in three years. Harvard needs to maintain strong defense and will most likely need multi-goal games from its two best players, senior Tammy Shewchuk and junior Jennifer Botterill...
Part of the world's great reluctance to fight in the Balkans comes from the region's unforgiving geography. The area once known as Yugoslavia is a jumble of steep hills, dusty plateaus and impenetrable valleys--a terrible place to fight a war but a wonderful place for guerrilla warfare...