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Brown will once again host this weekend's tournament, in which Harvard should have another opportunity to avenge its losses to the Bruins. But this time, it will be for real, as only the top two finishers at the New England tourney advances to Easterns in Annapolis, Md., the following weekend...
...Crimson has been playing well this season despite losing many of their top players to graduation last year. Harvard upperclassmen, along with Coaches Lisa Gartner and Anne Flavin, have succeeded in their goal of rebuilding and teaching the younger players the game of rugby...
...Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant had gone...
Those jeers apparently never reached East Berlin. Last week party elders demonstrated just how out of touch they are with the masses by awarding Krenz the country's top political trophy. Erich Honecker, for 18 years the country's unsmiling, unbudging leader, was relieved of his posts as head of state, Communist Party chief and chairman of the National Defense Council. Krenz, his protege, was elevated to all three positions. Technically, the 77-year-old Honecker resigned, citing the poor health that has plagued him since he underwent gallbladder surgery last August. But few East Germans doubted that Honecker...
Krenz, who had long been expected to succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts...