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Down 3-O, Harvard needed its offense to help the team climb out of the hole, but the attackers faltered and sputtered, unable to convert any of their opportunities into goals. The passes were not crisp and no one hit the cutters to the net. As a result, the Crimson struggled to maintain sustained pressure on the Vanderbilt defense...

Author: By Grant D. Wiens, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Lax Felled, 7-6 | 4/5/1997 | See Source »

Saints don't often retire. But MOTHER TERESA, the woman whom many revere as one, is 86. So, it has fallen on the frail-looking shoulders of SISTER NIRMALA, 70, a high-caste Hindu convert to Catholicism, to take over the Missionaries of Charity. Sister Nirmala joined the order at 23, after witnessing the horrors of the partition of India and Pakistan. "It was inspiration at first sight," she says of Mother Teresa's work. "Here was someone who could bring some compassion and a sense of destiny to the people." Sister Nirmala was elected by 123 sisters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1997 | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

While the overall effort was poor for the laxmen, certain aspects of their game appeared impressive. They were able to convert 50 percent of their man-up opportunities and only blew one clear. In addition, Harvard junior Doug Crofton scored a career-high four goals...

Author: By Joe K. Goodwin, | Title: M. Lacrosse Drops Overtime Heartbreaker, 10-9 | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

...complex. If I were buying my first computer today, he says, a PC would be every bit as easy (or hard) to master as a Mac. In fact, he insists, "there are a bunch of things on the PC that are absolutely superior." With the zealotry of a recent convert, he ticks off the holy trinity of Windows features (the task bar, the start menu, the two-button mouse) and slowly, almost against my will, I start to believe. Forgive me, Bill, for I have sinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CRISIS OF FAITH | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

DIED. STANISLAV SHATALIN, 62, witty economist who was a principal architect of "500 Days," the bold 1990 plan to convert the Soviet Union to a market economy, drafted at Mikhail Gorbachev's urging but dropped under pressure from Gorbachev's more conservative advisers; in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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