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...Crimson, in its "never-say-die" spirit thatwas the staple of Saturday's battle, respondedagain just under five minutes later. An inspiredattack by the freshman "Croatian Sensation" MarkoSoldo led to a Harvard corner kick from the rightside. The Crimson capitalized, as sophomore RyanKelly, demonstrating textbook cranialcoordination, beat the Yale keeper with a headerto the upper right corner...
...closer inspection, however, the Deal is a textbook example of the wreckage that occurs when political imbalance--weakness on the part of federal and state environmental agencies, blustering strength among enemies of land-use regulation--allows owners of private property to hold the environment at ransom...
...Glenn, a member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, was paging through a textbook on space physiology when a thought struck him. Doctors had long since identified more than 50 changes that take place in an astronaut's body during weightlessness, including blood changes, cardiovascular changes, changes in balance control, weakening of the bones, loss of coordination and disruption of sleep cycles. As a lay expert on aging, Glenn recognized that these are precisely the things that happen to people on Earth as they grow older. "I figured we could learn a lot if we sent an older person...
...courtroom drama was swift and efficient. After a two-week murder trial, jurors deliberated for less than six hours and emerged with a guilty verdict, putting a killer behind bars for life. Case closed. Thus was textbook justice meted out last week in Los Angeles, when jurors convicted Mikail Markhasev, 19, of fatally shooting Ennis Cosby, venerable entertainer Bill's only son, while he was changing a flat tire on Jan. 16, 1997. The Cosby family issued a brief statement saying it was "satisfied" with the outcome. Los Angeles district attorney Gil Garcetti stood outside the Santa Monica courthouse beaming...
...music was "surprisingly gentle for brass" in the words of one of the concert-goers, Tim Bushnell, a June graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government who was quietly reading a textbook in the courtyard...