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...remake of the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death." Nicholas Cage stole the movie from the light-weight Caruso as deftly and totally as Richard Widmark stole the original from the feather-weight Victor Mature. But having your first movie stolen by Nicholas Cage is not such a defeat. If your second movie is "Jade," however then you are in real trouble...
...Crimson's loss might seem demoralizing for a team that will begin Ivy League play this weekend, but don't let the 15-12, 15-8, 16-14 defeat fool you. It was much better than three...
...other Ivy League contest Princeton (3-3-0, 1-1-0) defeated Brown for the first time since 1982, 2-1. Earlier in the week they defeated Temple by the same score; these victories ended the Tigers' three-game losing streak. The defeat marked the second of the week for the Bears (2-5-1, 0-2-0), who had already been shutout by Connecticut...
...initial shock of the arrest of Simpson was dying down, the United States played host to the 1994 World Cup--an event that featured both the thrill of victory for Brazil, the agony of defeat for Baggio and his Italian teammates and its own dose of tragedy in the murder of a Colombian soccer star who inadvertantly scored the winning goal for the United States when those two countries squared...
...free fall, and suddenly the Mariners found themselves in the hunt for first. The turnstiles in the Kingdome haven't exactly been smoking, but last week a measure to raise Seattle's sales tax in order to finance a new stadium did not meet with the resounding defeat that was projected. In fact, the vote was so close, absentee ballots were being counted to determine the outcome. Had the vote gone heavily against the ball park, management said it would move the franchise. So, in a sense, the wild card saved the Mariners for Seattle...