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...Third, I blamed the 1998 football loss to Columbia on bad karma caused by the addition of male cheerleaders. One of them put my editor in a headlock when they ran into each other on the street. Playfully, I think...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It!: Final Tales from the Front Lines | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...years Cuba's communist dictator, Fidel Castro, has chafed, rattled and raged under the cold-war headlock of a U.S. trade embargo. But this past summer the wily presidente sensed an opening. Philadelphia health-care-products giant SmithKline Beecham (a subsidiary of SmithKline Beecham in Britain) got the Clinton Administration's O.K. to pay Cuba some $20 million for the rights to test and market, in the U.S., a meningitis vaccine developed by Cuban scientists. Embargo rules still require SmithKline to pay initially in barter instead of dollars--a Yanqui condition that aides expected Castro to reject. To their surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba's New Look | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...scuffle ensued. Several punches were thrown, and at one point, a Tufts student had Gahan in a headlock, witnesses said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Proctor Assaulted Outside Dorm | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each are the Establishment heavyweights: Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, the state's attorney general and son of the late Vice President, and his G.O.P. opponent, Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul. Now the Body is a supernova in the nation's staid midterm elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Body-Slam Politics | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...Waltham resident reported that at 12 a.m. an unknown person placed him in a headlock and robbed him of his cellular phone while he was inside Christy's on JFK Street...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 1/14/1998 | See Source »

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