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...that's the sound of the NHL season being cut down. Although NHL commissioner Gary Bettman hasn't canceled the 1994-95 campaign yet, the owners yesterday gave him authority to cancel the season if it comes down to a point where 50 games will not be played...
...girl, scribbling in her diary, who wins the Sylvia Plath Prize for the most achingly sensitive poem. Even her anthems (the up- tempo House of Cards and Jubilee) have the feel of requiems. The title song chides the middle class for its double-entry morality: "We pencil in, we cancel out, we crave the corner suite,/ We kiss your ass, we make you hold, we doctor the receipt." John Doe No. 24 is the poignant testament of a blind, deaf boy found on an Illinois street in 1945. And he's not the only lonely one. In Chapin Country...
...when it's all over, pocket half of every dollar, if any, it saves the city of Hartford. The company said it would immediately pump $1.6 million into fixing the most ramshackle buildings, and another $14 million into new technology. The board remains in final control, and can cancel the contract on 90 days' notice...
After a discussion about noise controls in the house, the committee voted to cut off an upcoming convention scheduled for the dinning hall at midnight. Some students wanted to cancel the convention, which is scheduled for the night before the Graduate Record Exam, completely...
World War II didn't cancel the World Series. An earthquake in 1989 also didn't. Nothing since the first decade of the century has postponed the postseason, but now the collective greed of both sides has killed the Fall Classic...