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...Australian, may have cemented his role as a team leader during last spring's Ivy League season. He posted a 6-1 singles mark, mostly at the No. 4 slot. During a match versus a tough Princeton team, Barker pulled through the decisive victory in less-than-perfect weather conditions to save Harvard from what would have been a crippling loss...
...even before the weather caused the game to be postponed, the events prior to the scheduled game time left Harvard (2-1, 1-0 Ivy), ranked 16th in the latest poll by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), fuming...
...work - if heating-oil refineries already operating furiously at 95-100 percent capacities can somehow refine more oil in time for the cold weather. It will almost definitely push down the short-term market price of crude, just like it did in 1991, because the U.S. government has now signaled its willingness to be a ground-level player in the world's oil markets at times of "crisis." And that's precisely the problem: "Crisis" has just been defined dangerously down...
...routine, according to a civilian interpreter who accompanied the 3/ 504th on its rounds, that locals, including women and children, would be ordered to lay on the ground for up a half-hour in sub-freezing weather. Guns were trained on them by G.I.s, and any questions would be met with a firm combat boot on the back, applying steady pressure...
...with a plan that calls for 1,000 people, armed with giant mirrors, to disrupt telecasts by flashing sunlight at television crews and into camera lenses. "We want the Olympic movement to reflect on its cultural imperialism," says Bondi councilor Dominic Wykanak. Unfortunately, the combination of an unfavorable weather forecast and the stadium's 16-meter walls looks set to frustrate the saboteurs' ambitious plans...