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...town of Snoul is a microcosm of the U.N.'s gamble. It is a poor place: pigs and cows root around the market; many of the goods on sale have come across the border from Vietnam. The town was destroyed during the American invasion of 1970; nine years later, Vietnamese tanks and trucks roared along the rutted dirt road as they invaded Cambodia to liberate it from the Khmer Rouge and establish an occupation that would last 10 years...
...coming off some hard races, and this was more of a chance for us to try different events," Tri-Captain Steve Root said. "People swam very well. They responded to the opportunity to swim something different...
...Root certainly did. In addition to winning the 200 butterfly (1:53.67), Root, who normally swims distance events, won the 100 freestyle...
...Except for that one setback against Brown [a surprising loss in Providence] I think the team is far exceeding the expectations we had at the beginning of the season," Root said. "We hope to fine tune our racing for the tri-meet at Yale and the Easterns in February...
...fools of themselves in the process. It's worse than that. When you live in the South, college football is a religion. My father took me to my first football game when I was six, and then several others in the years after that. I think I learned to root for his alma mater, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), just after I learned to talk...