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...Harvard's impotent power play-zero-for-Colgate, an all-too-familiar result--needs help, and with Martins suspended for the first of two games at Alaska-Fair-banks after his game-misconduct penalty, here's a suggestion: move Cory Gustafson over to Martins' spot on the right flank and give Konik a shot in the quarterback's position at the top of the slot...
...President dropped a bombshell on his left-flank supporters by announcing that he would be willing to consider a Republican-sponsored constitutional amendment allowing prayers in public schools -- depending on the "details." While civil-liberties groups characterized the President's statement as a "cave-in," White House aides scrambled to clarify Clinton's position, explaining that he only meant to express an interest in neutral legislation for a "moment of silence." Democratic allies in Congress were left grumbling about what they saw as yet another presidential waffle...
...College added new classes, includingcamouflage, navigation and extra physics and math,to prepare students for war. According to theyearbook, an athletic program--"an absurdpotpourri of push-ups and flank movements"--wasrequired for students in the expectation that mostwould soon be in military service...
...June 6, just after midnight, 16,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions dropped chaotically into the dark coastal countryside to protect the western flank of the incoming army against counterattacks. Lost in low clouds, many of the planes missed their drop sites by miles, but the scattered paratroopers, snapping cricket noisemakers to find each other, gradually regrouped and moved toward the beach. An additional 8,000 men from the British 6th Airborne jumped in to guard the eastern flank, catching the Germans guarding key bridges by complete surprise...
Even before Berlusconi could savor his triumph, however, rifts opened in his fragile odd-bedfellows alliance. The federalists of the Northern League, weary of watching their tax money leave the region, yearn to hive off Italy's rich north from its impoverished south. But on the opposite flank, followers of the National Alliance prefer a unified Italian state and support the centralist policies of Benito Mussolini. Early Tuesday in Rome's Piazza del Popolo, a traditional rallying point, hundreds of admirers threw stiff-armed salutes and shouted, "Duce!" -- the chant that greeted Mussolini seven decades ago. Three days later, Fini...