Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week, the Crimson will take on Fairfield on Friday and then both St. John's and Rutgers on Saturday. Other opponents in the following weeks will be UConn, UMass and Holy Cross, which will lead up to the Ivy League season opener, against Cornell...
...finished with a record of 43-14 overall, scored some key wins last fall, defeating rival Yale 24-31 (lower score wins). Tougher competition will come from the likes of formidable opponents Brown and Northeastern, which the Crimson will face this Friday at Franklin Park, Harvard's home course...
...minister Ehud Barak prefers to do things himself ? and usually late at night. So does Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. And so, although Barak sent his foreign mininster, David Levy, to start the historic "final status" peace talks with Palestinian negotiator Abu Mazen on Monday, he raised eyebrows in Israel Friday by holding a secret overnight meeting directly with Arafat to discuss some of those same final status issues. It's not unusual for leaders to intercede when talks between negotiators deadlock, but these talks had only just gotten started ? and Levy first heard of the meeting in the media...
...last week. "There are no more illusions now," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "This is the endgame for Boris Yeltsin." Three bomb attacks that killed more than 250 apartment dwellers in a single week have created a groundswell of calls for action among the nation?s politicians ?- and Friday?s call by Yeltsin loyalist and Federation Council speaker Yegor Stroyev for the president to step down signals the mounting clamor for his ouster...
...image of black lungs can?t quell your urge to smoke, perhaps the chance to nab a speedier ticket to heaven will do the trick. On Friday, the Vatican released an updated manual on indulgences, with several additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been...