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...year removed from a disappointing 5-5 season marred by blown leads and bad breaks, the Crimson (9-0, 7-0 Ivy) focused on fundamentals and did the ordinary things required to win with extraordinary precision and resolve...
...couldn’t have blown the balloon up bigger and then burst it,” says Alphonse Ippolito `79. “There was a lot of denial. People felt bad about the tradition...
...steel cages that ringed the back of the vast, underground trial chamber. Though prosecutors won more than 300 convictions by 1987, both Falcone and Borsellino eventually paid the ultimate price for their Maxi-Trial assault. Now, as Italy marks 10 years since the Mafia's brazen murders of Falcone (blown up on May 23, 1992 in his car along with his wife and three bodyguards) and Borsellino (killed in a similar attack two months later), organized crime experts say the Mob is quietly developing a very different look from the one on stage at Palermo's rowdy trials...
Experts say this decline--starting with intermittent "senior moments" and potentially progressing to full-blown Alzheimer's disease--is due to myriad factors, with things like genetics and lifestyle choices determining how far down the forgetful road we go. And those choices can be every bit as powerful a positive force as genetics can be a negative...
...have been rearming and conscripting fresh troops. Atta enjoys the support of Defense Minister Fahim in Kabul, who recently promoted him to full general without consulting Deputy Defense Minister Dostum. Fahim has also approved moving more tanks and armor to Mazar to support Atta. In late April a full-blown fight nearly erupted as Jamiat, in preparation for a parade to mark the 1992 fall of the communist regime, moved more tanks into the city. Dostum followed suit. When clashes broke out in outlying districts to the south, the city looked poised for a major battle. Under a U.N.-brokered...