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With two outs and the score tied 8-8 in the top of the tenth, Massachusetts loaded the bases on a double and two intentional walks. The next batter grounded to junior Bill Madden at third, but Madden's throw to second was high, deflecting off junior Eric Weissman's glove into right field and allowing two runs to score...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Baseball: Nearly a Miracle | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

...upon minority in the country to have struggled toward a moment of national definition only to find themselves suddenly redefined. Here they were, about to sit down face to face with the President in the Oval Office, when a major national survey abruptly shrank their population to a tenth of what it was once touted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shrinking Ten Percent | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

...FIVE-YEAR UNDECLARED WAR BETWEEN THE former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh is suddenly a lot worse. Armenia has swallowed one-tenth of Azerbaijan, including the regional center of Kelbajar, trapping thousands of civilians in desperate conditions. The U.S. condemned the Armenian attack. The U.N. Security Council demanded that Armenia withdraw from Kelbajar and reaffirmed the sovereignty of the besieged Azeri state. As heavy fighting continued over the weekend, Armenia welcomed an offer by Russian President Boris Yeltsin to mediate an end to the war -- something he and Kazakhstan's leader, Nursultan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stirring Bad Blood | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Crimson had a runner on second with one out in the eighth, and the Terriers had a batter on third with one out in the tenth, but Downey and Carr thwarted each of those rallies...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Softball Falters in Marathon Contest Against BU Terriers | 4/16/1993 | See Source »

...philosophical one--and that is the way it was enacted. The bill that Reagan signed in 1984 did not itself raise the drinking age. It compelled the states, with whom the prerogative of setting the drinking age rests, to raise it to 21 or lose federal highway funding. The Tenth Amendment reserves all rights not specifically delegated to the Federal government for the states. For the Federal Government to circumvent this protection by heavy-handedly wielding its financial power makes a mockery of the Constitution...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Reagan's Sober Legacy | 4/10/1993 | See Source »

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