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What Harvard had lacked since exams was the ability to handle adversity and sustain a high level of intensity and focus for an entire game. And when a resurgent Brown team showed up Saturday night, it was clear Harvard would have to play its best hockey or 60 minutes...
...with two tie votes), with the French vote in their camp. Sale and Pelletier looked briefly stunned. The crowd of some 16,000 at the Salt Lake Ice Center exploded in boos. The possibility of a judge's deal was in the air immediately. The Russians were eager to sustain a long tradition of winning the gold medal for pairs skating--10 Olympic Games in a row. The French wanted just as badly to win gold in the ice dance, in which Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat, the World silver medalists in that discipline, represented France's only real shot...
...Consistency is the linchpin of volleyball, and we haven’t been able to sustain that level of play throughout a match yet,” junior co-captain Mike Bookman said...
...gaining increasing importance in Israel's domestic politics. The call to "separate" from the Palestinians enjoys growing support from the political center and the left in Israel. The terms and boundaries of such separation may vary in different proposals, but the shared premise is that Israel can't sustain the cost of maintaining the current pattern of occupation. The peace plan currently being touted by foreign minister Shimon Peres is based on the principle of Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders - and a Saudi proposal for normalization of Arab relations with Israel on that basis has been positively received...
...Tokyo recently closed her account, but with no particular urgency. "Interest rates were so low, there was no reason to keep my money there," she says. " I just have enough saved to pay for my funeral." That's becoming a kind of national mantra. "We are rich enough to sustain ourselves for another five years," says Sakakibara. That, he says, is the problem - an excuse for not acting. "Because we can do nothing, that's what we'll do. And that will only make things worse." Like the individuals who draw on their savings accounts to pay the rent...