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...swamping the coast with 30-ft. waves, drenching the state with torrential rains and blasting it with near hurricane-force winds. Rail lines and major highways were cut by floodwaters up and down the coast, and hundreds of homes were destroyed. By week's end two more storms had struck and at least four people had been swept to their death by mudslides and raging waters. With another severe weather system bearing down on the coast--and ocean temperatures in the Pacific still hovering at an unseasonably high 84[degrees]F--there was no relief in sight...
Indeed, this El Nino, like the others that preceded it, has generated as many questions as answers. Why, scientists wonder, does it sometimes torpedo the Indian monsoon and sometimes leave it alone? Is it typical, or very unusual, that as many as four El Ninos have struck over the past seven years? How remarkable is it that two record-breaking El Ninos have occurred within 15 years of each other...
After a period of even hockey which saw the Terriers outshoot the Crimson by a margin of only 10-7, the favored team struck first midway through the second stanza. Gaining momentum off a Crimson penalty, B.U. attacked the Crimson zone in transition and at the 9:16 mark, Hobey Baker candidate Chris Drury netted the game's first goal...
That evening the White House got another assist, from a former stage-production teacher at Lewinsky's Beverly Hills high school named Andrew Bleiler, who revealed his affair with Lewinsky and cast her as a manipulative, star-struck home wrecker. A college schoolmate described her to a Swedish newspaper as a "notorious liar" and "a cheater." Penthouse, meanwhile, was offering Lewinsky $2 million to pose and tell her story; it all played nicely to what has been described as the "nuts and sluts" defense that would carefully paint Lewinsky as a less than reliable witness...
...people who plan the President's trips have never been known for subtlety. When Clinton worked the rope line after his appearance in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., the University of Illinois pep band struck up the theme from Rocky. A few hours later in LaCrosse, Wis., the musical message blaring from the loudspeakers was even more heavy-handed: Taking Care of Business...