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Last year, the Crimson had a bad habit offalling behind in the first period--and nevercatching up. Five times last season the Crimsonwas trailing after two periods, and each time itwent on to lose...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Skate Over Bruins, 5-2 | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

Getting excited is a Canadian habit at budget time. So it was hardly surprising last week when people from Newfoundland to British Columbia stopped everything to discuss how the government's new $92 billion budget would affect their pocketbooks. In his budget message in Ottawa's Neo-Gothic House of Commons, Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced an 8.4% decrease in Canada's $24 billion national deficit, crowed about the country's improved economic outlook and promised a tax-reform program that would lower personal taxes. Wilson had barely finished announcing the good news when most Canadians yawned and turned their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: How to Track a Plummeting Star | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

...think it's hilarious," Polsky says, but adds that he wouldn't care to try the sport himself. "It's sort of like smoking. You don't want to get the habit...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Game or Addiction: Putting Your Best Foos Forward | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...really a compulsion. Sometimes I don't even enjoy them--it's just a habit I have," says Jai Y. Scott '89, a devotee of video games...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: EXPLORING THE WORLD OF VIDEO GAMES | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

Some have managed to break, or at least cut down, on the habit. "I used to be really addicted," says Scott R. Panzer '88. Panzer plays on the Quincy House foosball ladder and is the House "czar. The czar is handpicked by the previous czar and takes responsibility for the upkeep of the table and running the ladder...

Author: By Sophia A. Van wingerden, | Title: Game or Addiction: Putting Your Best Foos Forward | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

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