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Harvard's Ivy status rests on back-to-back matchups with Cornell and Yale, on October 19 and 22, respectively...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Women's Soccer Seeks Consistency Against B.C. | 10/1/1991 | See Source »

...when the ball deflected off of a Wildcat defender and trickled into the net. Five minutes later UNH led, 3--1, on the strength of goals from senior midfielders Liz Brickley and Alita Haytayan. Clark brought the Crimson back to within one before Brickley and Haytayan again netted back-to-back back tallies to boost the UNH lead...

Author: By Christopher Sanzone, | Title: W. Lax Rebounds, Beats Rutgers | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

... into the lead. By the second-to-last event, the 200-yard IM, Harvard still had a chance to win the meet if it could finish in the top three spots, but Princeton's Carrington Cole touched out Harvard Co-Captain Nicole Engh for second place, clinching a back-to-back Ivy title for the Tigers...

Author: By Jose A. Guerra, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tigers Sink Aquawomen, 163-137 | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

...Back-to-back games on the road requires someextra maturity, which we still do not have,"Dooley said...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Icewomen Drop Three Over the Winter Break | 1/9/1991 | See Source »

Such is Chicago's plot. But this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Chicago's Razzle-dazzle Fizzles | 11/9/1990 | See Source »

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