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Long painted as a primary cause for the Crimson’s struggles this season, Harvard’s much-maligned power-play unit converted on two very important occasions this weekend. In Friday night’s 2-1 win over Clarkson, the Crimson managed to convert on a man-advantage early on in the second period. And in Saturday’s tie against St. Lawrence, Kolarik scored a power play goal midway through the first to give Harvard a temporary 2-1 lead...
...goal—which came on the powerplay—was the first that the St. Lawrence penalty kill unit had given up in the last 190 minutes it had been on the ice, including killing man-down situations against Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale...
...expect from my pilots," said Major General Paul Weaver, who retired as head of the Air National Guard in 2002. "He should have kept current with his physicals." Some Guard veterans have speculated that Bush may have been dodging random drug tests, which were instituted in some military units as early as 1971. But there is no evidence to support that; in fact, the dentist who worked on Bush's teeth and who later became the commander of the base medical unit, told TIME that the Alabama Guard did not conduct random drug tests until the 1980s...
...Front, though, that has the arms to face Aristide's police. Still, St. Marc, one of the Front's next targets, is well protected. The entrance to the town is blocked by armed guards from Port-au-Prince's special security unit. Members of the pro-government organization Clean Sweep walk freely around St. Marc with Uzis and revolvers. After a recent uprising in the city was quashed, locals say, Clean Sweep militiamen--called chimeres, Creole for mythical monsters--went after opposition leaders. "They chased and shot at the rebels like they were target practice," said a witness...
ROBERT SOCIA Car Dealer After 17 years, General Motors is returning to South Africa in full force, buying out its majority partner, Delta Motor. Socia, 49, a GM veteran, arrives to manage the newly named GM South Africa. GM sees the unit, which turned out only about 40,000 cars last year and claimed an 11% market share, as a springboard for growth in Africa. Socia, who previously ran worldwide purchasing, including a cost-saving partnership with Fiat, will fold the division back into GM. The company left the operation at the end of 1986 to protest apartheid, then reappeared...