Word: nero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trailing, 10-8, at the start of the final period, Harvard scored three straight times in less than five minutes on goals by Nick Nero, Steve Lux and Co-Captain Tom Corcoran to take its last lead of the contest...
Corcoran, who earned second-team All-Ivy honors last year, led all Crimson scorers with three goals in the game. Chris Pujols, the other Harvard co-captain, finished with two goals and two assists, while Nick Nero also threw in two goals and had an assist. Freshman Robert Griffith had an auspicious collegiate debut by pouring in two goals in the contest...
...Emperor Nero entered his Golden House for the first time. He inspected the statue of himself, 120 feet high. He saw the enclosed lake surrounded by buildings that were designed to represent the cities of the empire. He admired the pillared arcade that stretched for a mile, the dining rooms paved with porphyry, the ceilings of gold and fretted ivory inlaid with jewels. "At last," he said, "I am beginning to live like a human being...
Eventually, Nero's armies revolted and the Senate condemned him to be flogged to death with rods. He decided to resign from office by stabbing himself in the throat. At least suicide spared him the fate of some other toppled rulers -- the long twilight of exile, the sort of haunted afterlife endured by Napoleon, say, or the wandering Shah of Iran. Exile is not necessarily a fate worse than death, but there is something poignantly ignominious in the spectacle of the once all-powerful turned out to graze on their memories, their paranoid retrospections, in obscure pastures...
...gave it unforgettable polish and shine. Now Ava Gardner, 62, is bringing her glow to the phosphors of the TV screen for the first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone the wrong way. "It's a whole...