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...distribution of wins on Sunday was slightly more even—Princeton won four events while Harvard and Yale each took two—but it was clear from the first stroke that the Tigers would not be caught...
...world, where cricketers babble and corporate sponsors reign, he was not anodyne enough. Unlike Border, his closest contemporary, Hookes could not manipulate his sporting gifts to suit the occasion, spread his magic consistently from match to match and season to season, or call on diplomatic skills when needed to stroke the establishment...
Helal kept cruising in the fourth game, taking a 6-0 lead before Hall clawed back to 6-3. Helal then took two points to set up match ball, but Hall saved three straight—including one on a controversial stroke call—and pulled within one at 8-7 before Helal closed...
...plan with so much vision done so cheaply was heralded as everything from election-year hokum to signature Bush policy--a bold stroke accompanied by incremental steps to measure results. The idea is that while the earthbound Democratic presidential candidates are having their down-in-the-dirt primary fight, arguing about the past, George Bush is charting a future course for the heavens. "We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own," said Bush...
...Strokes seem to come on with a frightening suddenness, but new research in the journal Stroke suggests that subtle signs may be measurable as much as 10 years beforehand. The finding comes out of a study of 2,175 men and women ages 33 to 88 with no history of stroke or dementia. Researchers found that as the risk of stroke increased--indicated by variables like age, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking status, history of heart disease--the subjects' cognitive functions declined, perhaps owing to small, undetectable changes in the brain. "People don't just wake up one morning and find...