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...factors working against it. The first was the flu symptoms that struck the team this week—which one day forced almost 10 players out of practice and kept junior defenseman Kenny Smith out of the Dartmouth game—and the second the near-sellout crowd at Thompson Arena in Hanover that helped breathe life into the Big Green in the second period...
...based short-wave station that beamed into the country, a tactic that exiled Zimbabweans are using again. Now the regime is fighting back, recruiting popular singers to make propaganda albums. But the artists who sign on "are hated [for] glorifying a corrupt, brutal system," says a Harare music critic. Thompson Tsodzo, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture, admits the strategies are futile. "The government can't control music," he says. Artists like Mapfumo will be heard - on tapes copied until they're frayed, on short-wave radio, in bars and beerhalls. "Ministers had better listen," says...
...spent most of the past week unpacking his kit and training, was asked what he thought about Powell's performance. "We didn't hear about any speech," he said. "We're just waiting for our orders." They're coming. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson, Mark Thompson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington; James Graff/Paris; Marguerite Michaels/U.N.; Simon Robinson/Kuwait City with other bureaus
...tight-lipped policy on revealing the number of U.S. troops near Iraq, the Navy won't disclose just how many of its 20 or so sea lions have been sent to the gulf. But unlike the human troops, who are all volunteers, the sea lions were drafted. --By Mark Thompson...
There are 10,086 people in the Thompson-Boling Arena. Louisiana Tech is playing Tennessee in the State Farm Classic and ESPN is televising the game. The date is Nov. 14, 1999, and it’s Bev Moore’s first game...