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...Harvard men's hockey team doesn't occupy that catbird seat at this year's break; though only one point behind league-leaders Brown in the standings, the league collectively has multiple games in hand on the Crimson, so coach Ronn Tomassoni's troops must come out quickly on February 3 against a resurgent Princeton squad...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Midterm Report Card: Icemen Have Work to Do | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

Brown is the sole Bear in the ECAC catbird's seat--and few think that residence is permanent. And even in Hockey East, Northeastern lost to Yale, then beat BU, then lost to B.U...it's all got the consistency of the stock market. When nobody knows what's coming next, a few early L's can be swept out the door like the 103rd Congress...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Labor Pains | 11/15/1994 | See Source »

...Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird seat; now Hackney may be a sitting duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointments: The Next Lani Guinier? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...pursue the dream of a grand compromise that included some resolution on the Strategic Defense Initiative, rather than stick to the original U.S. goal of a medium-range-missile deal not linked to SDI. If Reagan accepted the bait, as he initially did, the Soviets would be in the catbird seat. Either Reagan would end up curtailing Star Wars, or he would emerge as the Grinch who stole Christmas, the man who dashed hopes for a radical breakthrough in arms control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was It All a Soviet Sting? | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...among them 80 brightly painted vehicles, 250 colorful people, a hippo, a rhino, a giraffe, assorted lions, tigers, llamas, horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and goats. The last to leave home base was the owner, D.R. Miller, who felt rather special and unhurried about this, his 50th year in the catbird seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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