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...Skating Dutchmen, who are currently playing Division III hockey, will fill the void left by Army. The eleventh-place Cadets (6-12-3 overall, 1-11-2 ECAC) announced earlier this season that they would leave the ECAC to skate as an Independent school...
...worked out with Russian republic leader Boris Yeltsin, his chief domestic rival. When Gorbachev substituted a watered-down plan, Yeltsin rejected it with contempt. Though Gorbachev talked the Supreme Soviet into giving him the power to rule virtually by decree, the republics declared many of his decrees null and void, leading to what both sides rightly called an intolerable "war of laws...
...wonders of Alice Walker's The Color Purple or Toni Morrison's Beloved or Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills were discovered by myself outside the classroom. And for this reason there was always a huge void in the body of knowledge that was presented through my literature classes. Even here at Harvard the chances of taking a class which deals specifically with the literary experiences of Black Americans from the perspective of a Black woman writer is a rarity at best...
...rival cocaine refiners in Cali and elsewhere have stepped in to fill the void. Raw coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality...
...billion-a-year industry burgeoning both as a business and a science. "There is no more growth in world fisheries, no more new native stocks to discover," says Ron Rogness, executive director of the National Aquaculture Council, based in Washington. "We're going to have to fill the void, and aquaculture is the best opportunity...