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...wrest the title away, Dartmouth and Penn have the best shots along with Harvard. Dartmouth's only graduate was first-team All-Ivy goaltender Lauren Demski, and the Big Green return back Cynthia Roberts and potent scoring threat Allison Pell. However, the team must still cope with the tragic July suicide of captain-elect Sarah Devens...
...correspondent Marguerite Michaels. "Once North Korea lets relief aid people into the country, it allows informal inspection of what is going on there. Any kind of contact with North Korea -- for the international community and for them -- is a positive step. It's just too bad the reasons are tragic, but it's a step in the right direction." North Korea claimed that recent floods and torrential rains have affected over 5 million people and caused $15 billion in damage...
...wonderful, yet tragic, things about a democracy is that the people who fight in the wars of democratic states are citizens of those states. Those citizens are family members and friends. War for most democracies is not one of detachment, where an army of mercenaries can be hired and told to fight. A war in a democracy, and specifically in America, means that American children will die. The hope is that there will be fewer wars, because only wars that are absolutely necessary will be fought...
...Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...
DIED. GROUP CAPTAIN PETER TOWNSEND, 80, British war hero and tragic romantic figure; in Paris. A decorated fighter pilot, Townsend downed 11 enemy planes during World War II. But he lost his postwar battle with the royal family and Queen Elizabeth, who disapproved of her sister Princess Margaret's romance with the dashing but divorced royal attendant. "She could have married me," Townsend wrote in his 1978 autobiography, "only if she had been prepared to give up everything." She wasn't. Townsend went into tasteful Continental exile in 1955, forging careers as a disc jockey, wine buyer and U.N. adviser...