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...that blowout simply never happened. The Crimson added just three more points in the second half while Dartmouth crept back into contention with two touchdowns. Only by virtue of a missed extra point, a failed two-point conversion and clutch Harvard defense was the squad able to avoid a stunning upset...
Dawson’s yard total crept higher and the Crimson lead swelled to 16. But with just under seven minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, it appeared that history would need to wait another week...
...country—at least officially—in the hands of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Unfortunately, the transfer of power has not made the rocky road to peace in Iraq any smoother. Earlier this month, a second, far grimmer milestone: the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq crept past the sobering 1,000 mark...
...latest national figures on heroin use won't be out until November, but in Victoria, where fatal overdose figures slumped from 359 to 49 between 1999 and 2001, deaths last year crept back up to 100. So could heroin make a comeback? Many argue it never really went away. Andrew Murray, executive director of Victoria's Youth Substance Abuse Service, which provides treatment, housing and support to about 2,000 young people each year, says heroin abuse remains common among young people with histories of abuse and violence, who use the drug to numb their emotions. When there...
...years ago that the notion of cutting one's hair and beard was "bulls____," Cannell is a key player because early attempts by Archer's helpers at using explosives were a mixture of dangerous and comical. Once or twice, recalls Archer, in the minutes after a failed detonation, he crept toward the explosive "not 100% certain that it wasn't about to go off." Other times, they used too much of a too-powerful agent. "From what I've been told," says Cannell, "there's every chance they put fossils on Mars...