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Harvard's sailing teams could not have picked more beautiful days to be out on the water. But despite the warm weather, the Crimson still faced stiff competition...
Heading into this weekend's tournament at Brown, the women's water polo team felt confident that it could handle its competition. While the Metro-Boston club team has always posed a stiff challenge, the other schools Harvard faced--Princeton, M.I.T. and Brown--have rarely fielded strong teams...
...unnamed male narrator comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...
...physical presence never fails to impress. At 6 ft. 4 in., Boris Yeltsin looms over listeners and lecterns, taming audiences of 1 to 100,000. His ramrod-stiff stance, his thick silver hair, his deep, slow voice all suggest a coil of powerful but slow-burning energy. Yet when Yeltsin starts to speak, the effect is not intimidating but mesmerizing, even entertaining. He has the touch of a born orator, able to sense the mood and needs of a crowd and play it for all it's worth. "When I first came into the room," he told a dinner audience...
...more than 150,000 soldiers could not be moved that far that fast, with all their armor, artillery and 60 days of ammunition and supplies, over a desert with only rudimentary roads. "I got a lot of guff," he recalls. "They thought that Schwarzkopf had lost his marbles." So stiff was their resistance that Schwarzkopf ordered his logistics commander, Major General William Pagonis, to sign his name to a pledge that the troops and their equipment would be in place by the Feb. 21 deadline...