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...case, the yearly Beanpot tournaments are grim glimpses into our collective future. When the situation demands anarchy, no one but a few scrawny undergrads ever rises to the occasion. The glazed preppy attitude has even started to haunt The Game; when first-years and seniors alike are relegated to the nosebleeds, it's up to the alums to make some noise, Nope...
Dallas got a taste of that on a January afternoon in San Francisco's Candlestick Park back in '82, when the hometown 49ers upset the mighty Cowboys 28-27 in the N.F.C. championship game. The grainy replays still haunt the faithful: Joe Montana throwing in the final minute, Dwight Clark leaping in a corner of the end zone, then "the Catch" that propelled the 49ers to the top of the N.F.L. pyramid -- a position they were to hold, more or less, through much of the subsequent decade...
...hinted that in the future he may haunt the booths of his late-night institution. "I'll come back and have a pizza," he told us. "This place is my home...
...client out of jail. Looking back on his career, Wachtler once observed that it took about three years for a politician to become a real jurist. "Only then," he said, "do you stop thinking every Election Day about what might have been." It's a thought that will probably haunt him again...
...isolation brought on by a war of their own making, but they are not about to reverse the evil of "ethnic cleansing." There is little chance that the Muslims of Kozarac or Prijedor or two-thirds of Bosnia will ever go home, and the consequences of their dispossession will haunt Europe for years to come...