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...particularly taxing. The canvas comes prepainted, and a neat if unimaginative work is guaranteed. Nicholas Delbanco '63 has made literature by the numbers with his new book Old Scores. The prefab plot of star-crossed love between teacher and student serves as his canvas, but a serious mixup occurrs with the paint. Large sections of the completed work remain blank, and the final result is not a thing of beauty. Delbanco has rehashed an old tale with little style and less coherence...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Like That Book by Nabokov: 'Scores' Less of a Draw, More a Loss | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Princeton finally scored its first goal on a defensive mixup between Albers and his defense...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Title Not in Cards | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...mixup on a back-header attempt from Sheriff to freshman keeper Ben Weeden led to Yale's only goal, but Sheriff atoned for his mistake within a minute. He sprung freshman Ricky Le past the Bulldog offside trap for a point-blank finish and his second goal of the year...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Men Booters Demolish Yale, 4-1 | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Harvard officials are quick to avoid blame for the catalog mixup, eventually passing it on to Pamela L. Green, mail communications production coordinator for the Office of University Publications (OUP). Green is reportedly investigating the delay but did not return repeated phone calls yesterday...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Missing Catalogs Irk Undergrads | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...Apparently, the Lai virus, which spreads easily, also contaminated Gallo's own cultures. When Gallo went back to analyze his Bru specimens, he did not find the Lai virus because the sample that was contaminated had already been used up. Gallo agrees that Montagnier's latest theory explaining the mixup is most likely correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bumbling Toward the Nobel | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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