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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violation of the rules, do not necessarily affect the score of the game. The phrase has rapidly spread from the sporting world to all areas of life. If you bump into someone in the street and apologize, the response is "no harm, no foul." If you're trying to explain a mistake you've made or a responsibility you've forgotten, it's handy one-liner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Proverb, Lots To Say | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...Asked to explain, she says she is referring tothe kids who drive up and down Acushnet Avenue andfrequent the Juke Box, one of New Bedford's fewnightclubs...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Unemployment Still Above 10 Percent In South Coast City | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

With the NCAA Tournament kicking off this Thursday, I thought it was interesting to explain that Harvard's A-League IM tournament is itself a bit of March Madness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Green Monster | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...prospects of the underage crowd. While a couple of police-related horror stories have come to my attention recently, it's a given that a certain number of underage drinkers are going to get nabbed in any year. And so it seems unreasonable--at least without further evidence--to explain the kinds of anecdotes I've been hearing in terms of a concerted law enforcement effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inebriation Revisited | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...good five minutes before my presence rouses the attention of the bartender, an older man I don't recognize. As he sits up from where he's been lying down on the counter, I explain my business and he tells me to return at eight o'clock, when someone who knows more about the pub will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inebriation Revisited | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

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