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Fraser will address tonight the question of whether the Detroit coalition-building attempt was a first step toward creating a third party in America...
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and screenwriter Tom Stoppard have made an interesting attempt to put Vladimir Nabokov's novel Despair on film. Anyone who has read the book might think that reconceiving the story in cinematic terms would be impossible--the tale relies on the reader's acceptance or disbelief of the first-person narrator's word. But Stoppard's conception is genius; only the delivery falls short of the mark...
Kirkland's second touchdown was tallied in the third quarter by Jamie Egasti, who took a hand-off from quarterback Casey Fitts, swept left and scampered 35 yards into the end zone. A two-point conversion attempt failed...
...might even have been better for the demoralized Crimson if Howe had made the intercontinental attempt, since it would have added a tone of finality to the frustration-wrought contest...
Gary Bosnic failed to break the ice for Harvard when he shanked a tough 44-yd. field goal attempt on the following play. Bos did break the ice with 1:55 to go in the half, though, capping a 53-yd, drive with an upright-splitter from 30 yards...