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True, it seems rather mean to send Harvard to its doom for the delight of the fans. Yes, Crimson players must have felt really awful after being doubled by the Dukies or crushed in Cameron year after year. But once the initial pain diminishes, Harvard can feel proud of the fact that they played Duke. Practically all Harvard players do not make the NBA, but they should be able to buy a Celtics ticket and say, "I guarded...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Blue Devilish | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

That is probably what it was. Quittner and Slatalla had just finished a book , about the rivalry between a gang of computer hackers called the Masters of Deception and their archenemies, the Legion of Doom -- an excerpt of which appears in the current issue of Wired magazine. And as it turns out, Wired was mail-bombed the same day Quittner was -- with some 3,000 copies of the same nasty message from the I.L.F. Speculation on the Net at week's end was that the attacks may have been the work of the Masters of Deception -- some of whom have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on the Internet | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...everyone who is depressed attempts suicide; nor does a low serotonin level automatically doom a person to self-destruction. According to Mann and his colleagues at Columbia and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, changes must occur in specific regions of the brain to create that danger. Their research, presented at last week's Neuroscience meeting, focuses on a section of white matter -- the orbital cortex -- that sits just above the eyes and modulates impulse control. In autopsies of 20 suicide victims, Mann's group found that in almost every case, not enough serotonin had reached that key portion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicide Check | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...score is also well-suited to Henry's interior moods, although, upon occasion, it borders on the cliched. Yet, it's easy to get caught up in the intensity of the wild overtures and become reflective when the somber melodies herald the doom of war. The music becomes a character as it shapes, together with the camera, the intensity of the moments...

Author: By Tristanne LILAH Walliser, | Title: HENRY | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...collection of corpses. This new Adam, hungry for guidance from his creator, faces only Frankenstein's revulsion, and seeks revenge on his "father's" loved ones. Bereft of everything except a desire to destory his terrible creation, the scientist chases the monster over the earth to their common doom...

Author: By Sorelle B. Braun, | Title: Kenneth Branagh's FRANKENSTEIN | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

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