Word: england
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Playing under New England Rugby Football Union Tournament rules, the Crimson and Huskies played 25-minute halves instead of the usual 40-minute halves, and the time reduction hurt a penalty-prone Harvard squad...
...Harvard Rugby Football Club ran into a similar obstacle Saturday in the opening round of the New England Championships at UMass/Amherst. The Crimson huffed and puffed--tried and tried--but fell one try short. And it was Northeastern, a bigger, badder team, that blew down the Crimson...
Gertrude Himmelfarb recalls meeting a young historian who described his work as being on the "cutting edge of the discipline." He was writing one of those infinitely detailed studies of the inhabitants of a New England town in the late 18th century, their working conditions, their attitudes, their sex lives. Himmelfarb asked how he connected his work to the major event of that period, the creation of the U.S. "He conceded," she writes, "that from his themes and sources -- parish registers, tax rolls, census reports, legal records, polling lists, land titles -- he could not 'get to,' as he said...
...rugby at New England Championships...
Congress raised the Peace Corps annual budget by $7 million this year and is expected to add another $10 million next year, said Jana B. Sample, public affairs specialist for the New England Peace Corps. The 1986 budget stood at $130 million...