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Despite remaining undefeated, Harvard has yet to hit its late-season stride. After playing tournament-quality soccer last weekend against Brown, the Crimson had one of its worst games in a 2-1 triumph Wednesday at UMass...
...market appeared to take in stride the fact that no final decision had been made by the close on whether the British government would go through with a public offering of its remaining stake in British Petroleum...
...Harvard men's soccer team heads into the second half of its regular season with today's match-up against Dartmouth at Ohiri Field, but Crimson Coach Mike Getman knows his team hasn't yet hit its mid-season stride...
...midmorning in Las Vegas, and already the desert heat is shimmering wetly on a running track not far from the casino strip. Here Bill Cosby is hurling himself through a series of sprints, his sturdy 6-ft. frame showing the form that won collegiate championships three decades earlier. The stride is long and smooth, and the pace is brisk through 300 meters (43 sec.) and 600 meters (1:48). Cosby beats his target times and beams with satisfaction. He rewards himself with a Cuban cigar the size of a relay baton and sets a faster goal for tomorrow...
...mystery here is why Author Tom Clancy abandoned the Popular Mechanics formula that served him so well in The Hunt for Red October (1984) and Red Storm Rising (1986): describe enough hardware and any plot can seem plausible. Clancy occasionally hits his old stride ("Pellets fired from a shotgun disperse radially at a rate of one inch per yard of linear travel"), but this time out he concentrates on his human characters, a subject apparently beyond the range of his research. Patriot Games is a minefield of unintended comedy. When, for instance, the Princess announces that she is two months...