Word: hat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Galluccio, the top vote-getter in this month's City Council election, would not confirm that he is throwing his hat in the ring but said that if he runs for any position next year it will be for state representative. To win, Galluccio would have to unseat incumbent Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge), who defeated him in a close race for state representative last year by only 90 votes...
...scratch Harvard's skeptical, scholarly exterior and things start to look a little more interesting. Rumors circulate: one account explains that early one morning, forty years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton...
...confirms such supernatural hi-jinks. None of the staff at the Wadsworth House have heard anything about a man in a Tricorn hat. Similarly, no one in University Hall, not the staff, not the janitors, not even Dean Archie C. Epps III, have heard sounds of ghostly merriment. At Christ Church, administrator Dick Whittington will give a thorough tour of the 12 graves in the basement of the church, but has never heard of a rambling British soldier. Bill Gannon, he adds, left years...
...reasons for it, this public backlash against the successful is an intriguing and powerful phenomenon which, regardless of its occasional unfairness, at least makes good copy. We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer for, and who better to wear the black hat than those people or organizations that the public made famous and successful in the first place...
...Crimson outshot both opponents by a combined, eye-popping margin of 104 to 26 en route to 9-1 and 10-1 thrashings. Suurkask and Francisco each had a hat trick against Augsburg on Saturday afternoon, while freshman forward Tara Dunn and junior forward Kate Schutt each scored twice on Sunday against Gustavus Adolphus...