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...Egelhoff hauled in the carom off the front of the rim and got it to Monti, who found senior Sarah Russell behind the three-point arc, just right of the top of the key. The last time Harvard visited Princeton, when the Tigers emerged victorious and snapped the Crimson's 29-game Ivy League winning streak, Russell had a chance to win the game on a three-pointer from the same spot. She was wide open and her shot seemed on line, but it found only the back...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Road-Weary: W. Hoops Eliminated | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Charitable Gaming Division of the State Lottery discovered a photograph that ran in The Crimson last month of Vivek H. Murthy '98, Vipul R. Patel '98 and Richard S. Chang '98 engaged in a possibly unlicensed game of Carom...

Author: By Matthew S. Mchale, | Title: Gambling Night Investigated | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

Animated only begins to describe Tama Janowitz's style, as readers of Slaves of New York and A Cannibal in Manhattan have already discovered. THE MALE CROSS-DRESSER SUPPORT GROUP (Crown; $20) continues the author's carom through the Big Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...bicentennial celebrations are not all musical. The British, for example, are staging a weekend of billiards tournaments to commemorate Mozart's fondness for planning carom shots while he composed music, and vice versa. Japanese entrepreneurs have already started selling Mozart dolls, Mozart watches, even Mozart sake manufactured to the strains of Mozart's music. "Mozart is suitable because it is gentle and smooth, not peculiar or chaotic," says the distiller. Mozart tours are selling well, and France is operating a Mozart train to several cities that the composer visited. The Austrians have put Mozart's picture on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hats Off to A Genius! | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...station in Los Angeles. The news executives concluded that there would be little impact on De Lorean's ability to get a fair trial and that the tapes' newsworthiness more than outweighed the risk. The CBS arguments about lack of impact and newsiness seemed to carom into each other. "This story is an old story," insisted Hewitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Case of the Purloined Tapes | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

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