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Cornell scored fourteen points last Saturday in the final four minutes of the game against Harvard. Big Red quarterback Ricky Rahne was almost wholly responsible for that comeback, with two scoring passes in the final four minutes...
...agents now offer intergenerational packages. Helena Koenig's Grandtravel is, well, the grandmother of them all. Long ago, when Koenig was just a parent, she noticed that the most successful outings she had with her kids were the ones in which she allowed each child to invite a friend. Fourteen years ago, after launching a successful travel agency, she used that knowledge and gave it a twist. She began organizing excursions designed for grandparents and grandchildren. This year she's offering trips to 19 destinations, each with four or five departure dates, ranging from a working ranch in South Dakota...
...Ryder Cup, which took place at The Country Club just down the road in Brookline. The Ryder Cup is a biennial golf tournament between teams of twelve Americans and twelve Europeans. It consists of twenty-six matches, each worth one point. The defending champion--in this case, Europe--needs fourteen points to retain the Cup, while the other team needs fourteen and a half points to win the Cup. Unlike other tournaments, the players receive no compensation...
...What is an Amiga? Fourteen years ago, Commodore (remember Commodore?) introduced the Amiga 1000, a sporty little desktop computer that featured one of the earliest commercially available GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) and a flexible, efficient 32-bit operating system with an array of features, including multi-tasking and serious multimedia muscle, that have turned out to be extremely prescient. The Amiga built up an active user base and a respectable software library, and it seemed ready to take its place with the Macintosh and the IBM PC as a major home computing platform. MORE...
...part of the takeover, the students forcibly removed all Harvard administrators from the building by 12:45 p.m. on April 9, 1969. Fourteen hours later, the protests were wrested out of the building by a massive police raid that led to more than 300 arrests, fractured bones and cerebral concussions...