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...when she re-entered yesterday's Harvard-University of Rhode Island field hockey showdown, the Crimson star quickly put any thoughts of overtime to rest, scoring a game winning goal with just 1:06 left...
Harvard returns to action today in a non-conference showdown with the University of Rhode Island at 3 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
...clashes between Mondale and Glenn laid bare four months before the primary season the deep-seated ideological differences between the two Democratic front runners. In large part, the showdown resulted because Glenn has been striving to sharpen his ill-defined image in the minds of Democratic voters. He is known mostly as an astronaut, an image that will be burnished this month with the release of the movie The Right Stuff, based on Tom Wolfe's bestselling book about the space program. To capitalize on the film's heroic depiction of Glenn as a young man, his aides...
...debate may be decisive. Certainly in the 1976 contest between Ford and Carter and again in 1980, a debate had a major impact. On the basis of Mondale's showing against Bob Dole in the 1976 vice presidential debate I would much prefer Mondale over Glenn in a debate showdown with President Reagan...
...Connery goes into is time-honored routine. There is the usual interlay with the villain: an early duel in a Cannes casino at a complex video game (a modern update of a baccarat table); a direct confrontation over Largo's innocent girlfriend Domino (Kim Basinger); and finally the obligatory showdown. The victory for the old days--for viewers and characters alike--is best summed up by "Q" (Alec McCowen), Bond's chief gadget provider. "The bureaucrats are now running the place; you can't do anything without a computer okaying it. Everything's by the book," he laments to Connery...