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...necessary to amend India's constitution-just in case Mrs. Gandhi might decide to push through an amendment, as she did last year, to increase her powers. Given her standing as a national figure and the entrenched position of the Congress Party, the odds are that she will slip through with a narrow victory. But opposition leaders now believe, with reason, that they just might be able to defeat the Congress Party for the first time in India's 30 years of independence...
...came close to letting her senior year slip by without hoop. The season was two weeks old before she came to a Crimson practice. At that point she was planning not to play. 'The past three years of basketball here had been such bad experiences for me," she said, "that I didn't want to continue the painful times...
...becomes a permanent fact about you, when really it's just momentary." All of this becomes heavy to carry around, and so does the slightly frowzy sexpot image evoked by a couple of injudicious photos, notably a rumpy shot in Rolling Stone of Linda in a wrinkled red slip. "So now everyone thinks I'm a piece of cheese," she says...
...team needs to avoid another tenth-place finish to avert a slip back into Division II, where they were mired until this year...
...transporter-47.6 meters (153 ft.) long and 23.8 meters (78 ft.) wide -moved along East 10th Street through Palmdale and adjoining Lancaster. At one point, Rockwell workers had to rush forward with a chain saw to lop off a traffic sign in order to permit the shuttle to slip through. But even with such precautions, the clearance for the ship was often only a matter of inches. Still, the eleven-hour move went off without a hitch. Townspeople turned out enthusiastically to watch the shuttle pass. "Weird," said Mike Frazier, 14, as he accompanied the procession on his bicycle. "Wonderful...