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After the intermission, the Crimson wasted no time launching another assault on the Springfield goalie. Just two minutes into the half, its efforts gave Walton the hat trick, as the senior scored on another penalty stroke when she placed the ball beautifully into the upper left corner...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Stickwomen Score First Win of Season | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...from heart surgery, glanced at the Oval Office and thought of the day in 1948 when at the last minute word came that "the Jewish State" would be called "Israel" and the documents for recognition had to be altered by pen before Harry Truman could sit down and firmly stroke his name. Present at the creation -- and now at what Clifford thought could be a renewal for the entire Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History in a Handshake | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...Clinton's] going to say to the left that'It's my plan or nothing' and he'll say to theright 'It's my plan or Canada,'" he says. "It's amasterful stroke. The left will have to support itbecause they don't want nothing and the right willsupport it because they don't want Canada...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, | Title: Experts Express Concern Over Clinton Health Plan | 9/24/1993 | See Source »

...encourage the partisans of competing approaches to stay loose. Their hunch was right: though she traveled widely to keep her husband's promise of reform alive while he was distracted with the budget, she kept her distance from the day-to-day decision making. After her father had a stroke in March, she withdrew from the task force for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Hill Clinton: Behind Closed Doors | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...harder case. President Hafez Assad is not eager to be seen as following Arafat's lead, and he believes the P.L.O.'s settling for a staged autonomy threatens his own ambition for a one-step return of the Golan Heights to Syrian control. Washington will have to stroke Assad, knowing that Israel needs time to digest the latest events before ceding territory to Syria, no matter the peace that would be its price. In Clinton's favor is the fact that Assad can no longer count on Moscow to support his pan-Arab dream and Syria's need for Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Now Comes Clinton's Turn | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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