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...inflict another loss on the Cornhuskers, Roby will need to use his bench and hope that it responds as successfully as it did against UNH. Against the Wildcats, the Harvard bench was able to wear down the opposition, placing it in foul trouble...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Cagers Looking For Respect In Nebraska Tourney Opener | 12/1/1989 | See Source »

After Harvard's offense could generate nothing for three plays, the Elis began a long march down the field, eating up large chunks of yardage on a Harvard personal foul and a 17-yd. Kehler-to-Caravella connection. Yale running back Chris Kouri capped off the 10-play drive with a 1-yd. plunge off left tackle. Harvard led, 21-14, but the Crimson contingent was getting nervous...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Spoil Yale's Perfect Year, 37-20 | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Elections for an independent Namibia were less than a week away when South Africa, which has controlled the country for 74 years, called foul. Pretoria dramatically claimed that hundreds of Marxist SWAPO guerrillas were infiltrating illegally into the country, posing a serious threat to a free and fair vote. Claiming to have "monitored" internal messages from a United Nations group supervising the election, South Africa suggested that the unit was reluctant to act against SWAPO. Vowing to "take whatever steps would be required," South Africa put its own troops on alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia: Disinformation Or Hoax? | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Earthquake | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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