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...Joslin. Vaughan and Co. who took the fans by the throat and would not let go. Having lost only three games in the last two years, two at the Final Four, winning was expected by Harvard and its fans...
...case, a 30-year-old woman with chest pains died after waiting 5 1/2 hours for a chest X ray; she was never given oxygen or an EKG. At Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, an 18-year-old woman who needed a tracheotomy had her throat inadvertently slit and both jugular veins cut by the hospital's trauma doctors. Despite massive bleeding, she managed to recover...
Members of this extremist clique speak of "presenting a united front" when "combating the Left," as though Harvard were divided into two distinct camps, each poised at the other's throat. They speak of a single "Christian" ideology, ignoring the very real differences between Christian sects and invalidating the other religions practiced by some one-third of undergraduates...
...summit before it started. Democrats immediately took them as confirmation of their darkest suspicions -- that Bush is again trying to portray the Democrats as the high-tax party, by euchring them into proposing an increase that he could either virtuously reject or pretend had been rammed down his throat as the price for shrinking the deficit. "Now I wonder if this ((summit invitation)) is a good-faith effort or whether political traps are being set," said House Budget Committee chairman Leon Panetta...
...first two-seat trainers and went into the business last spring, more than 1,000 would-be fighter aces have flown sorties. For about $500 a flight, Air Combat U.S.A. will give the Top Gun fanatic an exhilarating course in aerial tactics guaranteed to put your stomach in your throat with maneuvers that test the mettle of experienced nonmilitary pilots -- not to mention the amateurs, like myself. But surprisingly, says Blackstone, "the amateurs often do better than the experienced pilots, because in air combat you break all the rules of straight- and-level flight...