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Harvard's power play unit, showing gradual improvement over the course of the season, improved upon its 19 percent success rate and finally lit...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Drops to No. 4 New Hampshire, 4-1 | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...candles are lit. The room smells faintly of incense. The priest stands at the altar, clothed in a white robe. An intricate purple-patterned tapestry is strung across the altar behind...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Dilemma: Move up? Move out? | 12/13/2000 | See Source »

...table and pick up the basic elements of cutlery. Kids should be expected to sit fairly still in a chair, place their napkins in their laps and not speak while chewing. Occasional dinners at home at which family members sit down together with the television off and a candle lit, using cutlery and eating off actual plates, will help prepare children for more formal dining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minding Manners | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...fighting. Two weeks ago, he ordered his West Bank security chief Jibril Rajoub to stop the gunfire that had been peppering the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. The quiet held until a Palestinian force led by one of Rajoub's rivals opened fire late Thursday. In response, Israeli guns lit up the night over Beit Jalla. In his office in Gaza City, Arafat lit into the head of his National Security Forces in the West Bank. "Find out who are the sons of bitches shooting at Gilo," Arafat said, according to people who were with him. His hands shaking with fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The War Zone | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...unsmiling. "That night the crew got lost in the desert until 7 a.m. We finally got going, and after the second shot, a sandstorm came in." Could things get worse? Ask producer Bill Kong. "The Gobi is the hottest, dryest place on earth," he says. "So each morning we lit incense for good luck. Well, we had dreadful luck--it rained sheets, nonstop, ruining our schedule. After a while one of the local people came around and said the gods must be smiling on us. We asked why. 'Because you burned the incense,' he said. 'We burn the incense when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Year Of The Tiger | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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