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...last night's match-up. Today, Romania kicked Switzerland 4-1. Coming up: Team U.S.A. gears up for its second game, to be played tonight in Pasadena against Colombia. An American win would eliminate the Colombians. One key member of the South American team has been pulled from the roster due to a death threat against...
...California gray whale today became the first marine animal to be removed from the endangered species list. The gray beauties have been on the "protected" roster since 1967, but recent surveys estimate they now number 21,000 -- about equal to their population before the whalers nearly wiped them out. Though the gray whales' comeback has been declared a success by the government, some environmentalists worry that the move is premature and will send the wrong message to whale-hunting nations such as Norway and Japan...
...odds and most conventional wisdom, Murdoch, the Australian-born media baron, launched Fox's prime-time schedule in 1987 with one night of programming that included Married . . . With Children and The Tracey Ullman Show. The network expanded gradually, targeting its shows to a younger audience and developing a roster of trend-setting hits such as The Simpsons and Beverly Hills, 90210. Still, it has remained a distant No. 4 in the ratings...
...insiders are Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, an intellectually gifted friend of the President's; and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who appears to have the greatest day-to-day influence on Clinton when the subject is foreign affairs. The question, though, is whether anyone from the present roster would be seen as a credible "agent of change," to borrow a favorite Clinton phrase. Leading the list of new-blood types from outside the inner circle...
Nobody knows who these guys are. Unbelievable: the San Jose Sharks have already flashed past Detroit, the Western Conference number-one seed coming into the playoffs, and now they have stolen the home-ice advantage from third-seeded Toronto and what people remember is a roster sounding like a role call from the Russian Republics...