Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become so commonplace throughout the years that it's almost routine--the Harvard women's soccer team has won yet another important game. By virtue of a 2-0 shutout of UMass in the first round of the NCAA tournament yesterday, the Crimson have vaulted themselves one step closer to the National Championship and extended their current winning streak to seven games...
Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith is one of the New England recipients of the Patriot Trail Girl Scouts Woman's Leadership Award. She will be honored tonight at a banquet to be held in the John F. Kennedy Library...Allison Feaster edged closer to the Harvard record books on Saturday. Her 16 points bring her career total to 1,531 which means she needs just 75 points to break the school record of 1,605 held by Tammy Butler '95. HARVARD, 75-47 at West Point, NY Harvard 36 39 -- 75 Army...
...years Saddam and his officials have lied, threatened and concealed everything they could to keep the U.N. Special Commission from finding and destroying Iraq's weapons of mass destruction--nuclear, chemical and biological. He still has some of them stashed away, but the inspectors were burrowing ever closer to the last, most secret hiding places, and it looked as if they would never give up. Hence Saddam's decision to risk bombs to put the inspectors out of business...
...After the smooth-talking Tariq Aziz threatened to shoot down U-2s Monday, Clinton opted for restraint by waiting to see if the U.N. Security Council would condemn Saddam. They did. Iraq responded with an angry expulsion of American inspectors that only brought the U.S. and U.N. closer together...
With such stoicism, one may easily mistake Stereolab for an opening band. Their static stage manners coupled with the relatively sober crowd give no hint to their brilliance. Upon closer inspection, the crowd was awaiting the evening's top bill not with indifference, but bona fide reverence--creening to absorb the group's trademark sound of hypnotic rhythmic tracks overlaid with melodic, mesmerizing vocals...