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Monday, Boston Garden looked like the set of The Phantom of the Opera. Boston College and Harvard players were a bunch of crazed fiddlers, running around in an empty auditorium, desperately searching for their scores...
Last Monday at Meehan Auditorium in Providence, the Pandas and the Crimson went to overtime again, tied at one. But it was Brown's turn to cash in an overtime goal on its own terms: play dump-it-in-and-chase and head for the net on a perimeter shot...
...Harvard, the Brown-Yale weekend used to be one of the most difficult of the year--especially on the road. The Crimson had to invade Meehan Auditorium, where you can hear the mice digging in the basement and the snores of the 2000 or so people who show up for the game...
...night of the dinner, Gephardt's local organizers seemed well positioned to win: they filled the auditorium with hundreds of red-capped supporters to counter reports of a stalled campaign. Gephardt admitted that he "would like to have a straw poll." Meanwhile his campaign's hirelings, posing as agents of the newspaper, handed out scores of buff-colored ballots to arriving Democrats...
That's when state party officials stepped in and ordered the police to disperse the unauthorized pollsters. Later a disappointed Dinsmore buttonholed a top Gephardt official inside the auditorium. "Our poll had to be aborted," he reported excitedly...