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Midway through the seventh inning, a wind gust toppled the bench in the Quakers' bullpen...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Sweeps Penn 4-2, 8-7 | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

...viewer to know that. It doesn't need to be my grandmother. But the fact is, you have an elderly woman building a card house, which for me is the ultimate sign of optimism and perseverance, and yet at the same time it represents fragility because there's a gust of the wind and the card house is gone...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: David Hilliard: Between Biography and Fiction | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

...polls floated upward in the gust from his Iowa blowout, Gore was just being himself, only more so: more manic, more combative, more determined to take every position Bill Bradley has ever held and try to strangle him with it on national television. It was Bradley last week, under rising pressure, who looked into the abyss and concluded it was time for a change in tactics. And in the end, that could turn out to be Gore's sweetest victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Going For Broke | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

Kneeling before a 400-lb. concrete obelisk in the hills northwest of Los Angeles, Maureen Clemmons mutters a prayer to the ancient Egyptian god of wind. An hour passes. Then a strong gust straightens the lines that attach the obelisk to two nylon kites, shaped like the ones used in parasailing. Soon the kites flip the obelisk and drag it across a grassy field. Clemmons and her 12 assistants erupt in cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Build A Pyramid? Go Fly A Kite | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...fierce, 25mph gust from the southwest played havoc with the passing offenses. All four field goals came with the wind at the kicker's back, and none was even attempted against the wind...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Gambles, Hits Jackpot at Goal-line | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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