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...game wound down, however, Vanderbilt went on a 17-to-five run to close out the game...
...much. So on Saturday, Feb. 24, he claims, he decided to take the day off. He retired to one of his Havana-area homes and began paging through My Truth, a book that tells how Mikhail Gorbachev, in opening the door to reform, failed to control dissent and wound up losing power. These days, Castro will tell anyone willing to listen how determined he is to avoid the Soviet leader's mistakes. As a senior U.S. official says, "There is nothing more threatening to him than a perception in Cuba and around the world that the old man after...
...finale for the Ancient Eight crown and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Playing on its home floor, the Crimson fell to an inspired Big Green team which played far beyond expectations. While the loss hurt badly, it was the scene afterwards that put the sting in Harvard's wound...
...Yeltsin delivered his rambling speech, it was apparent that something had gone awry. One moment he was pledging to save Russia from a new Bolshevik revolution, the next he was suggesting that female employees of a local chocolate factory pair off with single military cadets. When he finally wound down, the lackluster applause demonstrated all too clearly that even in Yekaterinburg, Yeltsin had lost his appeal. "We've heard so many promises, but what's been done?" asked Nikolai, an 81-year-old veteran. "Factories aren't working, people aren't being paid, pensions aren't being received...
Counterpointing the Incandenza chronicle is the sorry saga of Don Gately, a former burglar and reformed drug addict who would rather suffer the agony of a gunshot wound than risk getting rehooked by pain killers. Ghosting through both densely detailed narratives is a group of legless Quebec separatists tasked with stealing Infinite Jest. They want to use its deadly amusing powers as a weapon. Filmmaker James Incandenza, was so entertained that he committed suicide by sticking his head in a hot-wired microwave oven...