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...senior. I've paid my dues--around $80,000 worth. To clinch matters, one of my former roommates starts for the football team. Another suited up for a couple of seasons. The least the Athletic Department can do--or so I assume--is reciprocate with some tasty seats...
...features. For shameless emotional manipulation, however, the show may set new standards. A report last week on a Pennsylvania company accused of selling machine tools to Iraq was loaded, irrelevantly, with grieving parents of dead U.S. soldiers. A story on forecasting failures at the National Weather Service tried to clinch its case by coaxing tears from a woman whose husband had been killed by a freak storm. Ratings so far are promising, alas...
...Erin Maher, who had been quiet for much of the game, nailed a trio of treys to clinch the victory for the Crimson...
...flashing back to 1976. I'm talking about our own junior forward Eric Carter who won my vote this weekend with his "Rim-maiming, lion-taming, Casey-defaming, clinch-the-gaming" slam, the final two of his career-high 17 points in the Crimson's 70-67 victory over the Lions of Columbia...
With Marin at the service line, the Crimson managed to add five more to the scoresheet but Springfield's superior team play helped them clinch the second game...