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...tone for the rest of the contest, as Harvard's aggressiveness up front produced constant pressure on the Vermont defense and allowed the Catamounts only a handful of scoring opportunities. Harvard goalkeepers Robyn Scatena and Mollie Durkin were forced to make a total of just two saves, a paltry sum compared to the 33 shots fired on net by the Crimson...
...Plan Bush would allow the elderly to stay in traditional fee-for-service Medicare or provide them with a fixed sum of money to pay for private insurance plans, some of which will offer a prescription-drug benefit. How much recipients pay and what benefits they receive depends on the plan they choose...
Gore's team says it will do all this surgically, with a lot of parts but no sum. His aides think he can take on the pharmaceutical companies over profits and oil companies over price gouging without seeming anti-business. And they point out that the crusade against HMOs appeals to upscale voters as well. "They get stuck on hold when they're trying to get reimbursed too," says a Gore ally...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. The camera may even have captured an on-the-fly self-portrait when the older Guinness sat, purring and omniscient, for the role of George Smiley in the two '80s mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley's People. Perhaps, in the sum of these men, we caught a profile of the composite Guinness character: he defined what it meant, at the sunset of the empire, to be an Englishman...
Maybe human intelligence is a zero sum game. The rules seem to demand that each manifestation of brains be matched by an equivalent idiocy...