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...lone season with the Green Wave, Irvin took snaps in nine of 11 games, starting the final two. During that span, he completed 59 of his 106 attempts for 694 yards and seven touchdowns, five of which came in Tulane’s 35-31 win over Texas Christian University...
...bewilderment as he pronounced the words freedom and liberty again and again. But what struck me most was the moment when security guards grabbed a pair of protesters trying to show their banner. In the spirit of his speech, Bush should have asked that the protesters be allowed to wave their banner. It was another of Bush's missed opportunities and the only thing that made me smile on that miserable day. Kees Broertjes Amsterdam Transatlantic Aircraft Re your article on the competition between Boeing and its rival, Airbus, the European commercial-airplane manufacturer [Jan. 24]: As Airbus rolls...
...first wave came from Dudley House, which began an online poll last week, and passed the poll onto other House lists, among them Adams and Dunster Houses...
...compared with the French one. Yet over the past few years, unscrupulous dealers in Europe and the U.S. have begun passing off the Chinese truffles as P?rigord's black diamonds. The deception has roiled the luxury-food industry, particularly as European harvests have dwindled. Last season, when a heat wave cut the P?rigord bounty from the usual 50 tons to 9 tons, the import of Chinese truffles skyrocketed to an estimated 30 tons from 20 tons the year before. This season, the U.S. is facing its own Chinese truffle deluge; a strong euro has sent the price of French truffle...
...MARIE ANTOINETTE'S OAK, 321, tree that shaded the infamously imperious French Queen; in Versailles, France. Antoinette saved it from the chop during landscaping in 1776. The oak survived centuries of war and storms, but finally was toppled last week, 18 months after succumbing to dehydration in a heat wave...