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...Terriers lit the lamp first, giving B.U. the advantage only 5:55 into the first period...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.U. Blasts M. Hockey, 2-1 | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

Speaking in both Spanish and English, the students lit candles in memory of David Sanes, who was accidentally killed seven months ago during U.S. Navy test bombings on the island, which sits off the Puerto Rican coast...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vieques Protest Draws Local College Students | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...While The Man has been busy working for our money, we all have started wearing khakis and eating in subtly trendy, balsa wood trimmed restaurants that are lit by tiny orbs of track lighting...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Fight the Power | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...weeks left to go until primary day, George W. Bush and John McCain are suddenly just single digits apart. And as it happened, at just the moment that the contest came into focus, the issues of intellect and temperament that have hummed all year suddenly threw off sparks and lit up the whole horizon of the Republican race. One Navy prince, one political prince, both rebel cutups with frat-house charm, they took very different roads to the stage they currently share. If Bush is defined by his friends and alliances, McCain is known by the enemies he has dared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Primary Questions | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...pick his enemies, but if he did, the choice would be easy. Gunning for him on one front is a 25-year-old rookie pilot from California who wants to be known only by his call sign, "Loose." An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, Loose recently lit his afterburners to escape a salvo of three Iraqi missiles. "I had a big fat grin," Loose says, remembering the day when the missiles came close, but missed, and his commander radioed back that he could retaliate with a pair of 500-lb. bombs. Once again an American pilot trained at a cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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