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Harvard's deficit at intermission could have been worse; Brown led 34-23 with 2:38 remaining in the period. But the Crimson scored the final six points of the half on a trey by Miller, a free throw by freshman point guard Jen Monti and a lay-up by co-captain Sarah Russell to reduce the Bears' advantage to five...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Loses Road Pair | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

Then Things got ugly--on both sides of theball. Neither team scored a point for five minutesuntil Harvard freshman guard Katie Gates converteda free throw with 10:27 remaining in the half.Following a lay-up by Yale freshman forwardCaitlin Bair that brought the Bulldogs to withinfive, the Crimson reeled off the next five pointsand staked itself to a 16-6 lead...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Loses Road Pair | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...could start going down like rosebuds in a hailstorm. In congressional hearings early last year, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) roundly criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for its lack of progress towards a Y2K solution. To address the problem, the FAA and the OMB worked together to lay out an aggressive timetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FAA's Year 2000 Problem | 2/2/1999 | See Source »

...conflict over what body parts he touched was not a trivial distinction: in that difference lay whether Clinton lied in his Paula Jones deposition, since under that tortured definition of sex, it did indeed matter which parts he had touched, and the President was very careful to keep his eye on the line. If the legal defense was strong enough to corral any restless Democrats, it was not enough to guarantee the six Republican votes the White House needs to adjourn the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Campaign | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

Venter decided he would become a doctor and work in the Third World. In a blazing six years, he finished his coursework, published a string of papers, was awarded his Ph.D. and found himself teaching med students. Along the way, he learned that his gifts lay less in medicine than in medical research. In the late '70s he met Fraser. They were married, and except for one brief professional separation have worked side by side ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craig Venter: Gene Maverick | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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