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...Crimson will try to undo its disappointment when it defends its undefeated status against three more tough Ivy League teams. The outcome of each match will prove critical to its season...
Like Hippocrates, Galen had become a medical icon, and it would take a bold idol smasher to undo him. History found the perfect candidate in Andreas Vesalius, a contentious young Flemish physician who, in his single-minded pursuit of the correct human anatomy, cared not a whit about Galen's untouchable authority. Gifted with intelligence, drive and the courage to stick with his convictions, he went his solitary way, dissecting cadaver after cadaver until he had made enough unbiased observations to write a book that would forever transform medicine's image of the human structure. Vesalius was 29 when...
...lawn with Speaker Gingrich at his side ? and chances are he won't be using his line-item veto to remove a pro-tobacco provision that Republicans sneaked in at the last minute. Clinton knows that any veto would have caused "political misery," says TIME's Jef McAllister, by undoing the delicate bipartisan balance of the hard-won budget deal. Minority leader Dick Gephardt told the White House he would try, in later legislation, to undo the provision making tobacco industry penalties tax-deductible ? when nobody's looking...
...nemesis, independent counsel Starr. On Monday, Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, announced that it had hired Starr to be dean of its law and public-policy schools starting in August. That surprise cheered the White House and infuriated Republicans, many of whom had hoped Starr could slowly undo the Clintons' grip on power with a string of indictments in the Whitewater affair later this year. Starr insisted that the investigation would go on without him, but well-placed sources noted that without the cooperation of Hubbell, Hillary's former law partner in Little Rock, and of Whitewater partner Susan McDougal...
...obsession, presumably born in his childhood memories of a prostrate China and his adult humiliation during the Cultural Revolution, was to undo the crimes and stupidities of the Cultural Revolution, break the communist ideological straitjacket and unleash, as he put it, the creative energy of China. His opposition to superstition and ideology, plus his hostility to the Soviet Union, made him seem more liberal than he was. Deng did not believe his nation could be governed democratically--at least not in this century. Sadly, Tiananmen is part of his legacy...