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...teams that are trying to wrest the title away, Dartmouth and Penn have the best shots along with Harvard. Dartmouth's only graduate was first-team All-Ivy goaltender Lauren Demski, and the Big Green return back Cynthia Roberts and potent scoring threat Allison Pell. However, the team must still cope with the tragic July suicide of captain-elect Sarah Devens...
Large numbers of legislators and local officials are, in fact, cattle ranchers--perhaps the same ranchers trying to wrest control of public lands (belonging to all Americans) from our government in order to block range reform. Overgrazing and other, sometimes violent abuses on our public lands are threatening the existence of many species as well as people and our country (the Sage Brush Rebellion...
...N.R.A.'s poor internal voter turnout. Though some 33% of members are eligible to vote, just 7% cast ballots. N.R.A. leaders went to great lengths last week in Phoenix to deny any serious rupture within the board. And despite speculation that hard-liners Knox and Metaksa might try to wrest control of the board from the somewhat more moderate helmsmanship of Washington and LaPierre, no putsch transpired. "The N.R.A. plays political games hard, inside and outside, but we are like a big family," says Knox. "Woe be unto you if you say something bad about our mama. We circle...
Barely 22,000 fans showed up to see the red-hot Red Sox wrest first place from the Yankees...
Eight years later, the little island country-with a population smaller than that of Los Angeles-has mounted an almost $20 million challenge, complete with the requisite space-age, computer-loaded sloop, to wrest the 144-year-old silver ewer from its U.S. berth. The grudge match between Team New Zealand and Team Dennis Conner began last Saturday in the first race of a best-of-nine series, with a resounding victory by the Kiwis aboard Black Magic I. With a possible two more weeks of sailing in the famously fickle breezes off San Diego, the final outcome is still...