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...Crimson would have stopped Yale's Richard Huff before he was able to reach out and bat Hall's punt to the ground with four minutes left in the first quarter. Or, at the least, it would have been able to halt Brian Hennen before he raced 35 yards for a touchdown, putting Yale...
...outbreak sent computer scientists scrambling to halt its spread. Russell Brand, who works for California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was one of the first to spot the problem. A quick survey of the lab's 400 machines showed that several computers had already been infected and that the contagion was growing rapidly. By early Thursday, computer operators had shut the system down and begun cleaning out the files. Then, recalls one of Brand's colleagues, "30 seconds after we restarted the system, the infection was back...
...weeks the frenzied activity at Bush for President headquarters in Washington and Dukakis for President headquarters in Boston has come to an abrupt halt every evening at precisely 6:30. Like religious devotees called to prayers, staffers have huddled in small groups around glowing screens for the one hour of the day when their champions go head to head in the campaign's most critical arena: TV's evening news...
...involved. Instead, the decision came from within their order. "We advised Aristide time and time again to tone down his sermons," explains Belgian priest Luc Van Looy, a top-ranking Salesian. Van Looy explains that the Salesians are concerned for Aristide's personal safety but also want to halt his preaching of violence as an acceptable means of ending Haiti's injustices...
Instead, this afternoon in Princeton, N.J. (12:30 p.m., ESPN, WHRB 95.3), Harvard (1-4 overall, 1-2 Ivy) will be fighting for its very survival and trying to halt a four-game slide...