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...Brown game was no fluke. In the month the Big Green has held it own against the other three teams that made the conference semifinals. Dartmouth upset UNH 4-3 on Feb. 21, tied Northeastern 0-0 on Feb. 28 and took Harvard to overtime Feb. 27 before falling to the Crimson...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey To Battle Big Green | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...dead weight of the past lay across him like a toppled statue," a dejected cop reflects blearily, well short of the end of Robert Harris' new thriller. He could be speaking for Russia. Our cop is bone tired, trying to track the lurching progress of Fluke Kelso, an academic who has dug up the diary of Stalin's last days. The failing dictator got a woman pregnant, the papers suggest, and she may have returned to Archangel, her home in the north. Kelso and a TV reporter head up there, followed by the cop, followed by military thugs. What they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Archangel | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

DateSite's other fluke is when people send amessage to more than just a little crush. Someusers seem to want a whole lot of love goin' on.Pho-Ho Open, a mailing list for residents ofPhorzheimer House, was the lucky recipient of the"Somebody likes you..." e-mail message lastSunday...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Date Sites Liven Up Harvard Love Lives | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

However, Miller also said that the errors had been accounted for and that the system was running smoothly by Nov. 17. Were the above 100 percent readings three days later just a fluke, or were they the output of a normally functioning system? What's truly going on? Perhaps inquiries should be forwarded to British mathematician Andrew Wiles, who gained celebrity for his complicated proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, to see if he can provide a solution. Of course, I myself have discovered a remarkable little explanation, but unfortunately this column is too short to contain...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Hitchhiker's Guide to Annenberg | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

...time, I found Cowher's naivete charming. Sure, the busted coin toss was the fluke to end all flukes, but once made, an official's call assumes the magnitude of divine revelation and griping, as Chuck Knoblauch taught us, is futile...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Unofficials | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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