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...WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Brown football team will look to improve upon its stellar 1997 season and to make a run at winning its first Ivy League title since...
Fish will rely upon Blake to display that dominance as he will have the No. 1 singles and doubles slot matching him against the very best of Harvard's opponents each tournament...
While the freshmen will be called upon to produce from day one, Harvard coach Steve Locker still believes that the Crimson's greatest asset will be the leadership of its three seniors, Lundquist, Williams and Dupuis...
...that Clinton lied when he told lawyers for Paula Jones that he and Lewinsky did not have sex, at least not by the light of the definition of sex approved by the judge, which was more technical than the instructions for hooking up a VCR. Since that definition hinged upon specifics of who touched what and what went where, Starr will need to spell out just those things. That was apparently why he secretly called Lewinsky back to his offices on Aug. 26 for two hours of wrap-up questioning so explicit it was the verbal equivalent of a cavity...
...seven years, but in that time they have failed utterly to create viable institutions of power. Under Yeltsin, Russia acquired the trappings of a civilized state: an office of the President, a federal parliament, private banks. But they only looked authentic. The presidency resembled the throne of the Czar, upon which the entire welfare of the nation rested. But the erratic Yeltsin is physically and politically out of touch, having lost control of his Cabinet, the parliament and the people. The Duma, supposedly a representative legislature, is hardly that at all. Except for the Communists, Russia has no real political...