Word: nine
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...baseball team is still in contention for the EIBL title. The team's 5-3 league record is good enough to keep it in the title hunt. However, the Crimson must win nine of its next 10 games to force a playoff with Penn for the league title. If it wins 10 of its next 10, Harvard will be the champion...
...result, the Crimson (9-11 overall, 5-3 league) must win nine of its 10 remaining league games to force a playoff game with Penn (12-4 league) for the EIBL crown. With Penn lying dormant during its exam period, a sweep of those games would give Harvard the title outright...
...nine-member board made up of private citizens and representatives from law-enforcement agencies and gun-lobbying groups will prohibit weapons it deems illegitimate. Cheap guns will then command a high price: manufacturers and sellers of banned weapons will face fines up to $10,000 per pistol...
...front of a billion people, and he finds heroic resources of good feeling. Just ask Bernardo Bertolucci. "It's incredible," the Italian filmmaker, 47, geysered the day after his The Last Emperor swept the Oscar ceremony. "First it was one award, then two, three, four, five, six-seven-eight-nine! It went beyond the individuals who won. I realized it was the movie itself. The movie was loved...
...several attempts to free the prisoners. Among them: at least two other hijackings, including the seizure of TWA Flight 847 in 1985, during which U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem was beaten and shot to death. The kidnapers holding many of the more than 20 Western hostages in Lebanon, including nine Americans, have also made release of the prisoners in Kuwait their key demand. In Washington, Administration officials said hostages freed from Flight 422 indicated that Hassan Izz-al-Din, one of four men indicted by a federal grand jury for Stethem's slaying, might be on the Kuwaiti plane...