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More importantly, Brown increased its lead toseven points 1:57 after the fumble. After anillegal procedure penalty drove the Bears back tothe Harvard 18-yard line, Perry found sophomorereceiver Steve Campbell for a 15-yard completion.Junior tailback Kevin Coyne walked into the endzone untouched on the next play...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Swamped by Bears | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

According to McGarry, the crushing of the strong twenties `gay culture drove homosexual relationships underground, keeping them under wraps and subject to harassment by police until the '50s. McCarthy's attempts to weed homosexuals out of positions of power then led to the rise of an activist body to counter his political manipulations. Instead of trying to define and establish a unique and separate culture, gay activists decided to strive for assimilation by attempting to establish a niche in society for homosexuals. Queer groups began fighting serious legal battles in the '50s and '60s over the right to distribute homoerotic...

Author: By Roman Altshuler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coming Out Into the Light | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

Springsteen drove to Cambridge three times in the fall of 1997 to sit in on lecture and speak to students...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CAN THIS CLASS Change your LIFE? | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...they gave her $500 to open a checking account. At their suggestion last November, she met with a Dallas lawyer to discuss using the last $173,000 check from her gymnastics exhibition tour to set up a separate trust. When her father found out about the plan, he drove to Dallas and took the check and Dominique back to Houston. Dominique told the Houston Chronicle that beyond just controlling her purse strings, her parents pressured her, and she lived in fear of her father, saying he hit her "a couple of times." Dumitru says he never hit her and maintains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vaulting into Discord | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Remnick tells it, Clay learned the uses of confusion by age 12, when he tied on his first gloves and discovered that his mother Odessa's serenity combined with his daddy Cassius Sr.'s maddening braggadocio sold tickets, captivated journalists and drove opponents clear up the wall. The phrase "I am the greatest" seems to have been almost Ali's first words, but the joke was that the words were absolutely true. The sweet little motormouth from Louisville, Ky., was about to become the greatest fighter in history, fast as a flyweight, strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrating The Greatest | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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