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...next play, however, Harvard junior cornerback Benny Butler drove the final nail into the Elis’ coffin, intercepting a Mroz pass and dashing any hopes of a Yale comeback...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Three Touchdowns in Seven Minutes Propel Harvard to 20-13 Victory in The Game | 11/23/2002 | See Source »

...devil assumes a sort of protoplasmic human form, enters the sister and impregnates her. Her husband walks in and, discovering her in flagrante devilfeto, grabs the vase and smashes it. His face goes all scarred and pustular and he defenestrates himself. She dies and, as she lies in her coffin, the d.f. swells visibly inside her belly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...Crimson’s heartbreaking loss against Northeastern two weeks ago may have been the nail in the coffin. Blewett’s failure to make a crucial 34-yard field goal as time ran out in the first half marked Blewett’s final attempt before the switch...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Freshman Morocco Gets His Kicks | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

...them,” he says. From 1818 to 1860, sophomores challenged first-years to a rough game of football at the beginning of the school year. When the faculty outlawed the game because of annual injuries, students held a funeral for the tradition, complete with a coffin for the deceased football and eulogy written partly in Latin. In Adams House, students participated in a raft race on the Charles River. One year, MIT students entered the contest and sped to the finish by hiding an engine under their raft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dorm's Eye View | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

Some victims' families received only a shard of bone to put in a coffin; many got nothing. Genelle's family got her back with a crushed right leg and a few other injuries--but basically whole. Relatives held a joyous 31st-birthday party for her in January, after she had fully recuperated. By May, she was walking without so much as a leg brace, an accomplishment that astonished a doctor who had told her she would walk with one for the rest of her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Survivor: A Miracle's Cost | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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