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...official: Junior Vin Ferrara, ranked as one of the Ivy League's top passers through the first eight weeks of the season, will sit out The Game on Saturday. Ferrara tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during last week's contest at Penn and will undergo surgery within two weeks near his home in New Jersey...
Once in Congress, Gingrich excelled at turning ordinary exchanges into blood feuds. When he tore into Democrats who had sent a letter to Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega, Speaker Tip O'Neill described Gingrich's remarks as "the lowest thing that I've ever seen in my 32 years in Congress." Gingrich gained his reputation as a giant killer in 1987, when he brought the ethics charges against Speaker Jim Wright that led to Wright's resignation two years later. That positioned Gingrich for his successful 1989 run for minority whip, despite the fact that the House Republican leadership supported...
...paint and new fluorescent lights to spruce up their decrepit neighborhood. "Since he is the President of the people, I'm sure he won't leave us in the street," says Tiol Losa, a carpenter whose home was one of 1,300 leveled last December by soldiers who tore through the neighborhood on a rampage of revenge. "When Aristide comes, we'll be able to eat," says Mona Numa, a mother of five. "We won't be beaten for nothing." She will find work; her children will attend school. Pay will go up; prices will come down. All will...
William A. Plerhoples '98 said he extinguished the blaze using skills he learned as an Eagle Scout. "I tore a branch off a tree and beat the flames out," Plerhoples said...
...baptism not by fire but by sound track. And to those who raged, suffered or sinned through that insane decade, the movie offers absolution with a love pat. Whaddaya know? We waged a stupid war that destroyed both another country and the best part of ourselves; we tore up our streets and our psyches in a kind of Cultural Revolution; we practically killed ourselves with drugs -- and it turns out we're not guilty. By allowing us to relive all the evils of recent history through invulnerably innocent, uncontaminated Forrest, the movie lets us achieve a vicarious virtue.Thank you, Forrest...