Word: game
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Ticket prices for Friday's and Saturday's playoff games at Boston Garden are $5, $6 and $8 for students. Friday's semifinal games feature St. Lawrence versus Cornell at 5 p.m. and Harvard versus Vermont at 8 p.m. The consolation game will be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, while the tournament championship is scheduled...
...NOTEBOOK: Dartmouth claimed a share of the 1988 Ivy League title last year in Briggs Cage on March 8. The Big Green's 72-65 win denied the Crimson the unidisputed crown. Then-freshman Nicole Hager pumped in 17 points in that game, but Harvard lost at the foul line, converting only...
...original idea for this unusual church came from Gilbert Bilezikian, 60, a professor of biblical studies at Wheaton College. Bilezikian was troubled by what he perceived as the growing irrelevance of some Christian churches. "Too often," he says, "church is like a football game with 22,000 spectators sitting in the stands doing nothing but cheering, and 22 players providing the action in the middle." In 1972 Bilezikian found an ideal quarterback for the new kind of team he envisioned: Bill Hybels...
...there's always bingo. According to federal officials, the game has become a $400 million business on the nation's reservations, and for an obvious reason. Since federal laws give Indians some of the privileges of independent countries, gambling operations are free from state regulation. Thus while most church bingo games in the U.S. might permit a maximum prize of $250 a card, the Indian version can offer as much as $50,000 for a single game. Several tribes hire management companies to run their bingo enterprises, and some of these companies, says the FBI, are fronts for organized crime...
...substantive stalemate: how to bring both Israel and the Palestinians to the bargaining table. No one believes Moscow can single-handedly make peace. Any hope of overcoming that logjam still requires American influence. "The Arabs and the Soviets know that until the United States joins the game, there is no game," says a U.S. Administration official. Then perhaps Moscow's aggressiveness will spur the idling Bush Administration...