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...gripping drama of the rescue effort gradually gave way to exhaustion and a sense of futility, stunned Colombians turned their attention to assessing the damage and rebuilding their lives. The official count of the dead and missing topped 25,000, making the Nevado del Ruiz blowout one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history. At least 8,000 people were left homeless by the volcano. Thousands of acres of prime agricultural land were destroyed. The threat of disease had to be curbed, along with a wave of looting and banditry. And there was the political fallout, with many charging that...
Yale had the chance to deal the Crimson a death blow: Harvard was coming off two blowout losses, and the Bulldogs were ranked No. 16 in the nation...
...Blowout losses to then-No. 4’s Princeton and Dartmouth showed the team lacked the feistiness it displayed against Penn, and the defeats sent the team spiraling into a home loss to Columbia, when the Crimson gave the Lions their first Ivy win in history by a 11-9 margin...
...mind. They could see how the next three months would unfurl, as clearly and simply as the plays drawn up on the blackboard in Dillon Fieldhouse. Only the details had yet to be filled in. There would be a comeback or two and a couple of blowout wins. There would be a sunny September day where Ryan Fitzpatrick’s receivers made catch after balletic catch. There would be a frigid October afternoon where Bobby Everett’s defense would bring new meaning to the word impassable...
...hour interim that spanned Friday night’s NCAA Regional blowout by Cal State Fullerton and Saturday’s elimination showdown with Big 12 foe Missouri, the Harvard baseball team never found a way to stop the bleeding...