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...short, I believed that the Harvard Crimson was the collegiate version of my former choke-prone Oilers...
undefeated opponent. Surely, Harvard was bound to choke when confronted with a talented team of equal caliber. But the Crimson was out to prove me wrong...
...short, I believed that the Harvard Crimson was the collegiate version of my former choke-prone Oilers. After Eric Johnson’s fateful catch at Yale in 1999, the 2000 campaign was full of similar disappointments...
...Martin Pinales says he's going slow on a fraud case because, in these anthrax days, the postal-inspector witnesses against his client may have extra credibility. The halo effect may even reach to cases in which police are defendants. Robert Jorg is on trial in Cincinnati for the choke-hold death of a 29-year-old black man. The case is proceeding as planned, but prosecutor Mike Allen is worried his chances of winning may have declined. "It's always hard to win a conviction against a police officer," he says. "It's going to be more difficult...
...could practically hear the House members choke on the news. "All these Senators were out there implying that we were lily-livered," a senior House Democratic aide griped. "We made the right decision," Gephardt insisted. "What message would it send to the terrorists if we stupidly put people back in harm's way, to be infected by anthrax? That hardly, to me, is an intelligent response." After a briefing Thursday afternoon by Capitol police, Gephardt told his staff the situation in Daschle's office was even worse than earlier thought. One aide said that decontaminating it would require fumigating that...