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PHILADELPHIA--Losing is never easy to bear, but when you lose to the best team in the nation, it takes some of the sting...
...Pratt hashes it out with her equally young staff, and then, it often seems, simply publishes the text of the discussion. "It was a typical Wednesday morning meeting," begins a feature on flirting. "Elizabeth and Catherine were having their usual argument over who's better looking, Dweezil Zappa or Sting . . . And Jane had that I've-got-a-brilliant-idea look on her face. 'Why don't we do a story on how we flirt...
...intruder's appetite for military data is what eventually did him in. To trick him into staying connected long enough to effect a telephone trace, Stoll dangled an irresistible lure: a file of bogus Star Wars information titled SDI Network Project. The sting worked. The hacker stayed on the line for more than an hour, greedily loading the phony data into his home computer. (The information was booby-trapped as well, containing an address in Berkeley for more information on the fictitious project.) West German authorities, working with the FBI, traced the call to the Hannover apartment, questioned its occupant...
...very good victory for us," Harvard Coach Ed Krass said. "We were up for the Yale match. We knew it was going to be a challenge. Beating them in all three doubles provided a sting to the whole affair...
...signature tune, his issue. Fifteen years ago, Jackson was decrying drugs as America's public enemy No. 1. The drug issue is -- and has been -- the strongest, the most reassuring, the most universally appealing part of his populist message, the theme that seems to take some of the sting out of his radicalism. He speaks more convincingly, more plainly about drugs than about any other subject. No other candidate comes close to the reaction Jackson gets when he calls out "Down with dope. Up with hope." None can match his personal urgency. As the other candidates have incorporated an antidrug...