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...increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter at birth than to see her later married to a soldier...
...Commencement address delivered at Harvard on June 8th, Ms. Bhutto, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, set a high moral tone by pleading the case for freedom, liberty and human rights worldwide. These are universal values which every nation must uphold, argued Ms. Bhutto, and she paid glowing tribute to the peoples of Argentina, Brazil, Panama, the Phillipines and her native Pakistan who stood up in defense of these values...
...Forward John Weisbrod Minnesota 1987 4th Forward Ted Donato Boston 1987 5th Forward Mike Vukonich Los Angeles 1987 5th Forward Richie DeFreitas Washington 1987 5th Defense Peter Ciavaglia Calgary 1987 7th Forward Tod Hartje Winnipeg 1987 7th Forward Kevan Melrose Calgary 1984 7th Defense Brian McCormack Detroit 1988 8th Defense Ed Krayer New Jersey 1985 8th Forward Scott McCormack New Jersey 1986 9th Defense Chuckie Hughes New Jersey 1988 11th Goalie Mike Francis St. Louis 1988 12th Goalie *Calgary traded the rights to MacDonald to Hartford
...feisty archaeological superintendent for Tuscany who battled for permission to dig up the piazza, hopes to mount a midyear show to explain the history unearthed: a medieval city of giant towers sitting atop an important Roman city dating from the 1st century; Greek objects imported as early as the 8th century B.C.; even obsidian tools and pottery fragments probably imported from Sardinia around 3000 B.C. Nicosia says the findings have forced experts to rethink old Florence: "We expected to discover the Roman and the medieval cities, but not to this extent. We also didn't know the city...
...tournament included some of the best teams in the country, including Arkansas, Boston College, Kansas, Kentucky (ranked 8th in the country), Princeton, Tennessee (ranked 21st in the country), and Yale. Harvard is ranked 24th in the country...