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...Saddam Hussein manages to find an amazing amount of wiggle room. He is walled in by economic sanctions and no-fly zones and international inspectors, but he still pops out with one ploy after another calculated to thwart the U.N. and inflate his image in the Arab world. Like a stage magician, he fills his act with grand gestures and hoopla, but on close inspection the show can be seen for what it is: illusion...
First-year forward Dan Clemente nailed a 12-foot baseline fade-away on a feed from senior captain Mike Scott with 32 seconds remaining to give Harvard the lead. The defense proceeded to thwart the Engineers' final opportunities by its trademark stingy play...
...husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references to the sacredness of blood--had refused. Eventually, at the urging of members of her community, and in the face of a hospital threat of a court order to thwart her, Claudette Jackson had Henry transferred to nearby Englewood Hospital's New Jersey Institute for the Advancement of Bloodless Medicine and Surgery...
While Harvard outshot UNH, 24-8, in Sunday's game, 100 minutes of hockey passed without a goal. UNH goalie Amy Agulay made 23 saves, and Mary Pearsall stopped four more shots to thwart the Crimson in the shootout...
...thwart what seems inevitable, Major's troops have turned to the same weapon George Bush wielded unsuccessfully against Clinton. Blair, they charge, is merely an opportunist, a leftist in middle-of-the-road campaign clothing. "With Labour taking many of our positions and all of those that are most important," says Tory strategist Andrew Cooper, "fear is all we've got left. We've got to try and cause people to worry that Tony's changes are just for show, to fear his change rather than welcome him as a nonthreatening crypto-Conservative they can comfortably take a risk...