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...Crimson (1-1 overall) will get some answers this weekend when it competes in the Duke Dial Classic at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. The tournament begins this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. with a top-twenty showdown between the Huskies (1-1) and the Boilermakers (1-0), followed by a game featuring Harvard and Duke...
...fact, the rationale for war goes beyond oil. The showdown with Saddam is a test case of whether the international community can contain unprovoked aggression in the post-cold war world. If the Iraqi dictator gets away with his seizure of Kuwait, the precedent will be set for other aggressions and other wars, some of them potentially nuclear, started by any nation that wants to alter the map of the world by force. American public opinion so far seems to understand this intuitively, but without much help from the President. He will have to do better than that...
...everyone who gets called by Bob Barker to "C'mon down," like Donato was last spring break when he visited The Price is Right studios in California. And even then, it's a one-in-three shot to make the Showcase Showdown, like Donato did with his 75-cent spin of the infamous wheel...
...latest distracting dustup started two weeks ago, when Feinstein heckled Wilson about his poor Senate attendance record. Go back to Washington to help out in the government budget wrangle, she taunted him, and I'll suspend campaigning. Last week Wilson returned to the capital because of the deficit showdown. Feinstein cheerfully continued campaigning. State G.O.P. chairman Frank Visco accused Feinstein of breaking her word. "All bets are off," she responded, because Wilson had tarried too long in California...
...would even be willing to vote for the package in the absence of a Republican majority. Predictions seeped out of the Speaker's office that supporters would probably prevail by the narrowest of margins. If the nose counters could not forecast the critical number -- 218 -- they would delay the showdown until Friday. Yet many members went to the floor still undecided, worrying about November...