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After five minutes of discussion, the officials nullified Balestracci’s TD, but gave Harvard the ball at its own 9-yard line. Murphy was livid, as were most of the fans, still unclear as to what the penalties were. Eventually the ruling came down that two personal fouls on Harvard were called—one on the team for “excessive celebration,” and another on senior cornerback Willie Alford, who was engaged in a scuffle with a Dartmouth wide receiver back at the Harvard 33-yard line...
...file lawmakers of both parties believe there have been far too many deals coming out of cozy bipartisan sessions like the meeting last week in Hastert's office. "House Republicans and House Democrats are both gagging on this," says G.O.P. strategist Ed Gillespie. Liberals in the House are livid Gephardt agreed to a bailout, promoted by Republican Senate minority leader Trent Lott among others, that helped airline shareholders without doing anything for laid-off workers. And conservatives went into revolt when Hastert nearly signed on to the idea of making 20,000 airport security workers federal employees. "Both Gephardt...
...another instance of uncanny foreboding, one of the roommates came back to Wigglesworth livid and reported that his freshman expository writing teacher slipped his final grade into an envelope with his girlfriend’s grade. Furthermore, the expos instructor asked when the two were getting married. What seemed like a preposterous question after barely completing the first semester at Harvard College turned out to be a reality seven years later...
...another instance of uncanny foreboding, one of the roommates came back to Wigglesworth livid and reported that his freshman expository writing teacher slipped his final grade into an envelope with his girlfriend’s grade. Furthermore, the expos instructor asked when the two were getting married. What seemed like a preposterous question after barely completing the first semester at Harvard College turned out to be a reality seven years later...
...surprise that American conservatives were huffing about China. They called for China’s normal trade relations status to be revoked. Some members of Congress even called for punitive sanctions against China. But the reactionary conservatives in Washington were livid not because peasants in Jiangxi Province had been gunned down, nor were they concerned for poor Chi Shouzu. Instead, they were angry that Chinese authorities had deprived an American of sleep...