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Apart from the anti-incumbent trend, the results last week showed the contrasts and contradictions usual for a clutch of local contests. One exception: gay rights lost heavily in all three places they were put to a vote -- Cincinnati; Lewiston, Maine; and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These are not exactly trend-setting cosmopolises, but the defeats extend an unbroken string of losses over several years that has gay activists worried. In most other areas, however, the results showed patterns were meant to be broken...
...Drury coming through in the clutch--a familiar formula for three years of Harvard Crimson hockey...
Post-season baseball in L.A. is special. Those are the only games of the year when most of the crowd arrives early and stays to the end. But 1988 was even more special. The Dodgers had been decimated by injuries. Purely on the strength of a little clutch hitting and the incredible shutout-inning string of Orel Hershiser, the Dodgers had won the National League West, outlasted the Mets in a seven-game League Championship Series and reached the Fall Classic...
...establishes Humbert's desirability to both of his women when the three of them see a horror movie and the mother and daughter each grip his hand in fright. Presaging what is to follow in one deft move, Humbert extricates his left hand from the older Mrs. Haze's clutch and places it on top of Lolita's hand...
...Holy Cross lost to Yale, 31-27, on quarterback Steve Mills' touchdown pass to Dave Iwan with just 1:51 to play. The clutch comeback earned Yale its first win and Offensive Player of the Week honors for Mills...