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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even without senior midfielder Lou Bevilacqua, out with an injured knee, the Crimson had too much firepower for the hapless Eagles to handle. Owen Leary and Crofton tested B.C. goalie Anthony Cirri three times early before fellow senior Jared Chupaila scored, bouncing a shot five-hole...

Author: By Owen Breck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Lacrosse Pastes BC 19-3 In Blowout, Ready for Ivy League | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...shareholders have suffered more than those of Green Tree, which was founded in 1975 in St. Paul, Minn., and has long been an industry leader. Hapless Green Tree investors have seen their stock sink from $50 a share last October to just $19 before it rebounded a bit to close at $24 last week. Coss, 59, a former used-car salesman who sports jeans and cowboy boots off the job, has seen the value of his own shares fall from $330 million to $145 million. Such misery has plenty of company: more than 20 Green Tree competitors have lost anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Good To Be True | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...tourists come and go each day, carrying back with them a little piece of Harvard history. Sure, sometimes they are annoying. They get in the way and take pictures of hapless students when they are not looking, but deep down every Harvard student likes to have tourists on campus. It is a good feeling to know that this school attracts students and others from all over the world to gaze at our ivory tower and that we are able to share its glory...

Author: By Neil R. Brown, | Title: Harvard 91 r | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson will get to ease into the challenge of back-to-back Ivy contests, as tonight's game is in Providence against the hapless Brown Bears, who have exactly one win in their 13 starts since Thanksgiving...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Hits Road for Ivy Games | 1/30/1998 | See Source »

That's a nice thought, and it may indeed happen. But it no longer seems likely that a temporary infusion of cash will be enough to keep this talented, hapless soul and his partner in literary fame, Lizbeth the dog, off the streets for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lars Eighner: Travels To Nowhere | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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