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...player named to the second team along with six honorable mentions. Junior running back Clifton Dawson was a unanimous first-team pick for the third year in a row. Dawson finished the year with over 1,000 yards rushing for the third straight time, becoming the first Harvard player to ever accomplish that feat. He was also voted the Crimson’s most valuable player by his teammates at the year-end banquet. Harvard’s other first-team nods went to junior defensive tackle Michael Berg and senior offensive linemen Will Johnson and Brian Lapham?...
...begun with: ''They're outrageous, and they're not so.'' This was not the way the White House was planning to greet the holidays. After a turbulent but ultimately productive first year, polls were showing that the President's approval rating had jumped to a gratifying 58%. White House aides, looking forward to a long-overdue breather, had lined up a series of Yuletide photo ops and year-end interviews that would let the President and Mrs. Clinton focus on the budget victory, the come-from-behind NAFTA triumph and next year's campaign on health care. The week opened...
...lure young readers to God's word. Although Christian publishing is booming--according to the Book Industry Study Group, sales of Bibles and other religious books are expected to swell to $2.1 billion this year, a 10.5% increase over 2004--experts fear that sales of traditional Bibles may stall. Spurred by biblezines and surging demand for all things Christian, year-end profits for the $238 million company rose 23%, to $19.8 million...
Mulroney candidly acknowledges his problems. Recalling the string of scandals that beset him last September, he said recently, "If I had my druthers, I'd outlaw Septembers in the future." But the Prime Minister, who noted in a year-end interview that more than 400,000 new jobs have been created in Canada since he took office, has also complained that many of his government's accomplishments have been ignored. "It's much easier for the media to talk about tainted tuna than it is about job creation," he said...
...estimates by TIME's European Board of Economists... Growth % change in real G.N.P., 4Q over 4Q Inflation % change in C.P.I., Dec. over Dec. Unemployment % of civilian labor force, year-end W. Germany 2.3 1.8 9.2 France 1.4 4.9 10.0 Britain 3.5 5.5 13.0 Italy 2.6 8.6 10.8 Sweden 2.5 5.3 2.9 W. Europe 2.7 5.0 11.3 U.S.[*] 2.4 3.6 (Nov./Nov) 6.9 ... and their 1986 forecasts Growth % change in real G.N.P., 4Q over 4Q Inflation % change in C.P.I., Dec. over Dec. Unemployment % of civilian labor force, year-end W. Germany 3.0 2.0 8.5 France 2.1 4.0 11.0 Britain...