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...dawn, Raviv brushes the outpost's floor to remove cigarette butts, spent machine-gun cartridges and the dirt that has blown in through the rifle slits. Not far away, Najjar will be raking out his tent after another night. In Rafah they sweep up the intifadeh's filth and wait for more grime to fall on them...
...freestyle Tonya event, U.S. kneecappers, as expected, made a gold-silver-bronze sweep of it, but by and large the skullduggery inherent in cheating makes handicapping the favorites in most events difficult if not impossible. At Salt Lake City even the old stereotypes--nobody can cork a curling stone like a Canadian, the Swiss have a lock on clock slowing, don't even try outfoxing the French when it comes to slipping small animals into the luge run--promise to be severely tested. Blame escalating commercialism and its henchman, dollar power. Item: tiny Hindu Kush hires away the legendary snowshoe...
...enemy?the Soviet Union. On Feb. 21, 30 years to the day after Nixon touched down, George W. Bush is arriving to create a new global coalition against his enemy?international terrorism. It would be grandiose to suggest that Bush's two-day swing through Beijing will change the sweep of history the way his predecessor's did. Yet three decades on, China again relishes the chance to build a new relationship with America. "China has become a world power," says a senior Chinese foreign policy advisor, "and now it wants to show that it can act like...
After the aces and a Harvard timeout, Springfield scored eight of the game’s final 10 points to seal the game and secure the sweep...
...junior-freshman “train” combination of Oli Choo and Jonathan Chu won the first doubles match 8-5 against Oklahoma. Sophomores David Lingman and Chris Chiou won in the second doubles slot, and captain Dalibor Snyder teamed with sophomore Mark Riddell to complete the sweep...