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...Crimson (8-2-1) handily defeated Boston College, 3-1. The Eagles dug themselves into an early hole and never recovered, lowering their record...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Stickwomen Stick It to Eagles | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...Hill, permitting herself a rare display of emotion, wrinkled her nose in disgust. "The name that was referred to was Long Dong Silver." Hatch, who emerged as one of the panel's most aggressive interrogators, later dug up a 1988 decision by a federal appeals court in Tulsa, citing an obscene photograph of a character by that name. Hatch suggested it was this court case that had brought the name to Hill's attention -- not Clarence Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Said, He Said | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...left 39 men from the crew of the wrecked Santa Maria to fend for themselves at La Navidad in Haiti. When he came back for them on his second voyage, they had all been killed by the Lucayo tribesmen. Archaeologists at this first Spanish settlement in the Americas have dug out some shards of Venetian glass and the bones of a 15th century pig. At Isabela in the Dominican Republic, where Columbus founded Spain's first colony on his second voyage in 1493, some evidence is turning up about the layout of the town, its artifacts (including a crucifix, possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Who Was That Man? | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...hard to believe that Gamsakhurdia could have dug such a hole for himself in a mere four months. When he engineered Georgia's declaration of independence while serving as chairman of the Georgian supreme soviet last & April, he was hailed as a patriot. In May, when he took 87% of the vote, becoming the republic's first democratically elected president, he was regarded as a modern-day St. George who had defeated the dragon of Soviet imperialism. Given Gamsakhurdia's reputation as a distinguished literary scholar and his activism on behalf of human rights, comparisons with Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Paranoia Run Amuck | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...some little combinations which worked well, but we have to get rid of the ball quicker," Harvard Co-Captain and mid-fielder Ceci Clark said. "We dug ourselves into a hole...

Author: By Joanne Nelson, | Title: Huskies Blank Stickwomen | 9/19/1991 | See Source »

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