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...Matt McRae to score the eventual game-winner by poking a pass from Denis Ladouceur through Prestifilippo's pads...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Splits Cornell, Colgate | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

With the Crimson desperately and unsuccessfully trying to clear the puck out of the defensive zone, Cornell proceeded to light the lamp four times in 10 minutes, beginning with McRae's game-winning tally. Stienstra had a hand in each of the next three goals, scoring one and assisting...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Splits Cornell, Colgate | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

Perhaps no one employed this strategy with more profound results than the incomparable Billie Holiday, who paved the way for an entire generation of black women vocal stylists, including Carmen McRae, Ella Fitzgerald and R.-and-B. singers like Aretha Franklin. Although Holiday, who counted Bessie Smith among her most important musical influences, was not a blues singer per se, her music was deeply rooted in the blues tradition. As a jazz musician working primarily with the idiom of white popular song, Holiday used the blues tradition to inject suggestions of perspectives more complicated than those the lyrics themselves contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blues Music: Back To The Roots | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...reward to help find the culprit. But Nelson and Pence belittled the reward and blamed the county for helping conjure the lawless climate that led to the bombing. Stung, the county met again and unanimously withdrew the reward. "We didn't really expect gratitude," says Cameron McRae, chairman of the commission. "But we surely didn't expect to get it thrown in our faces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNREST IN THE WEST: NEVADA'S NYE COUNTY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...surgeon general nominee of knowing about -- and endorsing -- an infamous 1969 government study that purposely left black men with syphilis untreated. The White House, which had dismissed as extremist the same accusation from anti-abortion groups, said the doctor's remarks "are all inconsistent with the facts." Dr. Luther McRae, former president of the Macon County (Ala.) Medical Society, said he'd testify under oath that Foster was told about the U.S. Public Health Service's Tuskegee project during a 1969 meeting. McRae says he remembers Foster, then the society's vice president, "sat two chairs away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOSTER FACES NEW CRITICISM | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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