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...Oaks' private computer network proved as difficult to reach as the real America Online. Early in the action, his first humvee was taken out by an armored personnel carrier hiding behind a ridge. (The direct hit was indicated by a flashing yellow roof light and a humiliating siren crying Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!) When Oaks transferred operations to a second vehicle, electronic disaster struck. "Every computer I've got has crashed!" he shouted three hours into the battle, and reached for the paper maps, acetate overlays and colored markers that have been the battle-planning tools of U.S. commanders for nearly...
...ends a string of stunning courtroom victories for the ex-football great, was topped off by a jury order that Simpson pay $8.5 million to compensate the Goldmans for the death of their son. As the verdict was read, Simpson remained stoic, staring straight ahead. Across the courtroom, a whoop of joy was heard from relatives of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. "Yes!" screamed sister Kim Goldman, in contrast to the way she sobbed openly when Simpson was acquitted of murder 16 months ago. She and her mother and father clasped hands in jubilation, and in a press conference...
Okay, okay, that was also another rather immature comment, but one can argue that the entire Harvard-Yale rivalry is one of immaturity. I mean, who should care if so-and-so's cricket team can whoop so-and-so's butt...
...election of 1996 had less whoop and holler than it might have, it was because the electorate had become like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the nighttime: the dog did not stir because it knew its master. Not that people didn't care about the election. They knew what was coming, because they had ordered it up themselves. They felt the country was doing O.K., and at the same time they understood that the government they were about to put in place was unlikely to have anything to do with their lives...
...listen to a word that The Boston Globe has to say--Adonal Foyle might be a good player, but he is not David Robinson (Grancio outplayed Foyle and I have a feeling the Admiral would whoop up on Harvard). Colgate doesn't stand a chance. At the top of the bracket, UConn makes it to a Sweet 16 matchup with under-rated UCLA...