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...years ago, the heavily-favored Crimson met the Knights in the ECAC semis. Clarkson's Luciano Borsato, who is still around, put in an empty-net goal in the game's final seconds to doom Harvard...
...seems like only yesterday that it was next year. Paul Erdman's The Panic of '89 was on the best-seller lists, sounding financial doom in the midst of a powerful bull market. That was, in fact, in the winter of '87, nine months before reality iced Wall Street. Erdman does not have to worry; quicker than a program trade, here he is, hedging his investments with a sixth novel. The Palace offers no scenario for economic disaster. Quite the contrary. The book is a racy tale of how one clever and gutsy (though not especially honest) fellow can rise...
...only one of the earliest recorded responses to the spinning wheel of fortune. Ever since, the rubble of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations. In the 18th century, a visit to Rome inspired Gibbon to write an enduring history of imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman...
...Democratic race, Harvard experts said that Rep. Richard Gephardt's (D.-Mo.) victory boosted his candidacy for now but did not doom the runners-up, Sen. Paul Simon (D.-III.) and Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, who each gathered momentum yesterday for next week's New Hampshire primary...
...first time since his trip to Bimini, Gary Hart will be a free man. Once the Iowa returns ensure his doom, Hart will be free to cruise the streets in a neighborhood near you. Mothers--warn your daughters. Donna Rice--unplug your phone...