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Between Peter Baccile's 49-yard field goal 6:01 into the contest and Villanueva's three-pointer at the final gun, it was just not a day for the offense. Five Harvard possessions consisted of three plays and a punt: Cornell did the same three times. "We hardly had time to rest and talk to our kids on the sidelines," said Clemens...
...drumfire order, first captain of the corps of cadets, president of his class of 1959, captain of the football team, Heisman Trophy winner and a "star man," ranking in the top 5% of his class academically. No other West Pointer has mustered all those honors, before or since. After Dawkins married Judith Wright in 1961, he studied philosophy, politics and economics as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, where he excelled at Britain's own game, rugby. Then he enrolled at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School: in 1969 he earned a master's degree and he then returned...
Natty in olive-green uniform with row upon row of military decorations, Ogarkov traced the path of Flight 007 with a long metal pointer on a huge colored map before an overflow audience, which spilled out of the second-floor auditorium of the Novosti building and down the stairs to the mezzanine. As no other Soviet official had done, he admitted in so many words that Soviet fighters had shot down the Korean jet and confirmed Western reports that two air-to-air missiles had done the deed. But his explanation was confusing. He suggested that Soviet ground controllers...
...flat, earnest voice, aiming his pointer at charts and graphs projected on a small screen, Spinney explained how the costs of high-technology weapons inexorably race out of control. "There is a systematic tendency to underestimate future costs," he said. "Deepseated structural problems need to be addressed." Within the building where he has worked for ten years, Spinney noted, "everybody is fighting to save their programs." His words often lapsed into Pentagon jargon, but his point was clear: "Planners become desensitized to cost growth over time...
...color and thin wire tail. The size of a pack of cigarettes, it fits snugly into the palm of the hand. Slide it across a table and electric signals go down its 2-ft. tail. Plug that tail into a computer, and the mouse directs the movement of a pointer on a video screen. The result: a device that can bypass the thicket of codes, commands and complicated keyboards that have plagued users since the computer era began...