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Harvard (2-1, 1-0 Ivy) looks to knock off the undefeated Cornell Big Red (3-0, 2-0 Ivy) tomorrow when it travels up to Ithaca, N.Y. Last Saturday, the Red Raiders managed to stave off a fourth quarter Crimson comeback and win 24-21 on a last second field goal...
Just a minute into the second overtime, Terrier junior midfielder Kirk Miller barely missed a golden opportunity after juking past Meagher. His shot banged off the right post and rolled left precariously along the goal line, but the Crimson defense was able to knock the ball out of bounds before a Terrier could capitalize on the rebound...
Joshua Quittner's article about how cell-phone users can be extremely annoying was a masterpiece in "irritating humor" [BUSINESS, Aug. 23]. I laughed till I cried. Quittner really sized up the situation and even gave a reasonable solution--a hypothetical electronic jamming device that would knock a phone abuser off-line. It was great having a comic break during my workday. And, yes, I do have a cell phone. SANDY MASON North Fort Myers...
...relationship with Mom improved, my dad and I had knock-down-and-drag-outs over her treatment. He and the doctor wanted her in a hospital. She wanted to die at home. Dad wouldn't, couldn't pay for round-the-clock nurses. Part-time aides came and went, unable to take the hours and the unrelenting attention Mom needed. After she had a tracheotomy and required a tube down her throat, I had to learn how to apply suction to the tube when she felt the saliva backing up--a procedure most of the aides were either unable...
Memo to Boris Yeltsin: If you dodecide to move Lenin's body from Red Square, you may want to convert his mausoleum into a McDonald's rather than try to knock it down. As Russia debates what to do with the bones of its first communist leader, his Bulgarian counterpart on Saturday got the last laugh on the country?s post-communist authorities. Georgi Dimitrov?s body was cremated shortly after the collapse of communism in 1990, but following a fierce national debate, the present government decided to finish the job by destroying his mausoleum in downtown Sofia. So with...