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Carey, Mager and Huling all hit consecutive RBI singles in a three-run sixth as the Crimson piled on the luckless...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball 3-1 on Opening Weekend | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...with the camera, a development he liked to explain by way of a story he heard from Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer. For a long time she couldn't bear the sight of the pianist whom her rich lover had hired as her accompanist. One day she and the luckless musician were riding face-to-face in a carriage. Suddenly it pulled up short, and she was flung into his arms. "I stayed there," she told Brassai. "I understood it was to be the greatest love of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Brassai: The Night Watchman | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...sought-after prey of collectors and taxmen alike also bought the luckless Steve Trachsel membership in an equally exclusive fraternity--the college of Tracy Stallard and Tom Zachary, fellow victims of the pursuit of baseball immortality...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Mac Chases History, Sosa Pennant | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...Clinton is that what had once been mostly confined to the back of the national classroom is now up at the chalkboard giving lessons. The problem for the President isn't that Leno, Bill Maher and Conan O'Brien are talking about his sex life night after night (luckless David Letterman was in reruns last week), it's that Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts are. The disquieting effect is not unlike having to hear how your dad is in bed. From your mom. Comics at least have an advantage over newspeople in that they don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Oh, Behave! | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Early in the third quarter, after Princeton's luckless quarterback Harry Nakielny managed to complete his first pass for positive yardage of the game, corner Glenn Jackson popped Tiger wideout Ray Canole and safety Jay Snowden recovered the loose ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Kick in The Pants | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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