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...CHESTNUT HILL--The Harvard softball team collided headfirst with the Ryan Express yesterday, as Boston College pitcher Kimberly Ryan shut down the Crimson offense in both games of a doubleheader at Shea Field...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Softball Drops a Pair of Close Games to BC | 4/14/2000 | See Source »

Somehow this plotless work becomes suspenseful. The promising Thoroughbred goes lame; the unassuming little chestnut wins a race. "A football game is one story, one day a week. That's boring," a track addict explains to his son. "A day at the races is thousands of stories, with grass around, trees around, a breeze, some mountains in the background." Smiley tells just a few of those stories, but it makes for a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Fine Day at The Races | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Amin was accused of shooting a 23-year-old Atlanta man, but the charges were dropped after the victim claimed police had pressured him into falsely naming Al-Amin as the shooter. Such brushes with the law strike Al-Amin and his supporters as harassment. Says his lawyer, J.L. Chestnut: "He's been fighting the system since he was 16 years old, and now the system is trying to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap Brown's Deadly Return | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

Behind them, though, bare-chested neighbors with flowing red hair are galloping down the main street on chestnut horses. A girl is kissing a customer in her delight at having completed, successfully, a credit-card transaction (her first). And around a tiny graveyard of white and black and red-brown crosses, crookedly set against the sea, the moai stand, restored to their dark platforms, in front of cresting waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You in the New Millennium? | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...CHESTNUT HILL--The line that divides a good team from a great team is often very small. For the Harvard men's hockey team on Friday, that line was about the width of a goal post...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The 'V' Spot | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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