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...made the front end of a 1-and-1 with 33 seconds left for a three-point lead. Brian Earl scored on a backdoor cut with 15 seconds left to bring the 12th-seeded Tigers (24-4) within one, but Gonzalez made two free throws with 14 seconds left to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: March Madness: UNC Nips Fairfield | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

Cornell led 10-4 early on before Harvard got its wake-up call. Seanor was the first to get the message, finding Gelman on another backdoor cut for a layup...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Women's Cagers Defeat Big Red 72-58 | 2/15/1997 | See Source »

...dangerous menace or something less than that--even, perhaps, a kind of benign and unfairly persecuted folk medicine--suddenly dominates discussions of the great American drug habit. Last month voters in Arizona and California passed ballot propositions that legalize the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a kind of backdoor quasi-legitimation alarming to the pot hawks, who fear that high-minded tolerance (pot as pain reliever, glaucoma salve, general angel of mercy) may become infectious and spread to the other states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS & POT | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...back Andrew Lundquist's throw-in, Bengtzen tapped a quick touch pass to McLaughlin, who dribbled up and found Silva near the goal line on the left wing. Silva drew Hartwick's Doneit out of the net and then slipped a backdoor pass to Kohler for the easy tally...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: M. Soccer Defeats Hartwick | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

Moreover, Clinton's decision reveals his ignorance of the potentially volatile situation surrounding the upcoming elections within Russia. With the ascension of ex-communist hard-liners a likely possibility, renewal of the classical conflict involving an American presence in Russia's backdoor shall surely emerge as a significant component of leaders such as Vladimir Zhirinovsky's platform. Our presence in the Balkans may very well refreeze the Cold...

Author: By Riad M. Abrahams, | Title: U.S. Politics Have No Place in Bosnia | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

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