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...Radcliffe basketball team caught a bad case of the second-half scoring blues last night, allowing the Wellesley cagers to come back from a three-point deficit at halftime and eke out a seat-squirming...
When the smoke cleared from last year's long ballot counting, Francis H. Duehay '55, had just managed to eke out a seat on the Cambridge City Council. The small margin--just a few more than 90 votes--came as a surprise to an incumbent and one-time leader in Cambridge School Committee voting...
Regardless of how favored the Crimson may be, the Big Green always seems to play beyond its capabilities against Harvard. The results have been agonizing for Harvard fans. Two years ago, Dartmouth upset a highly-favored Crimson squad. Last year, Harvard barely managed to eke out a win. Out of the past seven matches, Dartmouth has stolen...
...lend itself to the camera as there are immediate and plaguing flaws in adaptation. A Boy And His Dog is set in 2024, in an America ravaged and torn by the nuclear warheads of the Third World War. The survivors, either alone (solos) or in marauding groups (roverpaks), eke out a savage existence on the crater-ridden surface, foraging for canned food and gang-raping the remaining females. Aiding them in their search for food and sex are telepathic dogs, equal in intelligence to humans. Below the surface, in cavernous air-raid shelters, are the remains of Middle America, existing...
...scattered 13 per cent of the total land area their permanent homes, and that 13 per cent is largely infertile and barren. South Africa's rich mineral deposits and its cities are all in white areas. African adults--both men and women--leave their families on the Bantustans to eke out a subsistence with primitive agricultural techniques on barren land, while they look for jobs in the mines and factories outside...