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Harvard gave the Tribe a run for its money with a split in the singles matches, but the doubles proved to be the final nail in the Crimson coffin...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: W. Tennis Thwarted by W&M | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...that was as close as the Crimson would come. The Huskies put the nail in the coffin in the seventh when designated hitter Mike O'Donnell blasted a two-run home run to right field off of sophomore reliever Neil Magnuson...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Clinches Red Rolfe Title | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IT LAVAS L.A. | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

MADRID: There was no coffin or graveside eulogy, just a simple Pegasus rocket traveling at 6,200 mph and 22 lipstick-sized metal vials containing the ashes of Timothy Leary and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry, among others, for the first commercial burial in space. The containers will orbit the earth for up to10 years before reentering the atmosphere with a fiery explosion ? "blazing like a shooting star in final tribute," according to the Web site for Celestis Inc., the Houston-based company that organized the world's first space funeral. At $4800 per vial, the space shot costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Space | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

...purchased a new home on the city's tony South Loop. "You can feel a lot of fear going through the neighborhood," says Dominic A. Pacyga, a historian at Columbia College who grew up near Bridgeport. "People say to themselves, 'Is this another nail in the coffin?' They feel that it's not home anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO'S LAST HOPE | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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