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In a statement released October 8, 1895, the chair of the Harvard Athletic Committee announced that "October 5 having passed and Harvard having received no invitation from Yale to play football, it is now defi- nitely settled that there will be no football game this year between the elevens of...
Drive-through windows and 7-Elevens just make things worse. Takeout-food consumption climbed sharply in the 1980s -- up about 13%, according to a Roper poll -- as Americans found themselves with less and less time to prepare meals. That represents a triple whammy on the waistline: 1) takeout food tends...
The Government now requires banks to keep an eye out for Smurfs, but launderers have developed new techniques. Since retail businesses that collect large amounts of cash are often exempt from the $10,000 rule, launderers have created front companies or collaborated with employees of such outlets as 7 Elevens...
If plays were dice, Manhattan's Roundabout Theater would be rolling sevens and elevens. In the past year this eclectic off-Broadway group has mounted a wryly tender A Taste of Honey, fired off an ebulliently witty Misalliance, weighed hypocrisy and humanity on the scales of The Browning Version...
Yearning for the small town or tight city neighborhood that once was theirs, or if not was encoded on their genes, these Middle Americans are the easiest targets for the companies that enjoy so much advertising from this 21-hour extravaganza. Damn, they'd like to go to a real...