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Thus with Matt's condition slowly improving, Emily was able to complete her junior year, which included even more soccer highlights. By this point, she had not only clearly established herself as the premier player in the Ivy League, but she was also gaining national recognition. As a finalist for the Missouri Athletic Conference Collegiate Player of the Year, Stauffer had succeeded in bringing Harvard to the national level...
DIED. SIR ERIC GAIRY, 75, brutal and bizarre Premier of Grenada from 1967 to 1979; in Grand Anse, Grenada. A grass-roots labor leader who came to power by flouting the colonial plantocracy, Gairy ruled by caprice. He terrorized his opponents with his henchmen, the Mongoose Gang; traveled to the U.N. to expound on UFOs; and once visited London to judge a Miss World contest (the winner, no surprise, was Miss Grenada...
Come dawn, and the densely populated neighborhoods explode with vitality and never-ending energy: today Hong Kong is Asia's international business hub and the world's eighth largest trading economy, as well as China's premier asset. In 1996, the territory's entities channeled about $100 billion into mainland China, about 60 percent of all the capital injected into the country. The economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event...
...touch for cunning escapes and coming out on top at the end of a long day. Only this time the adventure doesn't star Jones but the President of the United States--and it's not in the jungles of Central America or Asia but in the nation's premier passenger plane: Air Force...
...have our share of these types, but in the interest of journalistic balance, it must also be reported that we have more than our fair share of fine families, college graduates, astute businesspeople and nature lovers, not to mention theater and the arts, pristine mountains, wildlife and wildflowers, and premier restaurants and shops. Our skiing ranks among the best in the world. Our summers are a foretaste of paradise. As a former urban denizen, I count myself blessed to be spending my twilight years here in Shangri-La. JOSEPH E. MACHUREK Crested Butte, Colo...