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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Dartmouth goalkeeper Vern Guetens, who registered 35 saves, came up big to keep the game close early. But it was only a matter of time before the fiery Harvard offense would prevail...
...temporarily) is that the universities were indeed being used as centers of protest. However, the protest of choice being employed by the Palestinian "activists" was that of violent rioting and assaults on persons in uniform. Palestinian school administrators have, in fact, asked Israeli officials in many recent cases to close schools temporarily until the violence had subsided...
According to one of the regulars, a bearded man named Mike, the regulars form a close, family-like group, which he compares to characters who attend another Boston area pub, "Cheers...
MacKay pocketed the first game, 15-6. Belknap stomped MacKay, 15-3, 15-9, in the next two. MacKay came back to close out the match, 18-15, 15-9, in two fast-paced games...
...some experts, the capacitor discovery was a chilling indication that Iraq might be on the verge of building a nuclear bomb. Says Paul Beaver, publisher of the authoritative Jane's Defense Weekly: "Saddam is getting close to when he will need that part of the nuclear mechanism." Other experts strongly disagree. U.S. intelligence officials, despite the Administration's alarms, insist that Iraq is not on a fast track to being able to produce anything more than a single low-yield device...