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Perhaps more remarkable than the Harvard blowout was the fact that Adelphi kept the game close for a period. After 15 minutes of play, the two teams looked as evenly matched as a pair of drunken Western gunslingers preparing to duel...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Traveling in Two Directions | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

Yesterday at Soldiers Field, Baxter and freshmen Cody Weston and Zach Hope combined to hold Boston University to three hits as the Crimson edged the Terriers, 3-2, in a fierce pitcher's duel...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Put Terriers in Dog House, 3-2 | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Captain Peter Holmes concluded his illustrious career on the mats with a fourth-place finish in the 167-lb. division. Holmes faced Cornell's Andy Rice in a much-anticipated semifinal match--the two tied 1-1 in their duel earlier this year. Neither could score a point until Rice took. Holmes down and levelled the quick pin during the second period. This was only the second time in his collegiate career that Holmes was pinned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Wrap | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

...Bush-Rather match (otherwise the merest blip in the history of a presidential campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Kingdom of Television | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

Meanwhile other Adams House residents have taken a very opposite approach. For instance Rudy Ruiz '90 and his roomate Peter Clateman '90, who are also running for the council, have engaged in a personal duel. Both posters are written in the same style-black handwritten xeroxed on white paper with a black strip with white writing on top and bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mud Flies in Adams Campaigns | 10/8/1987 | See Source »

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