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...Glasgow--overcast, tenement-filled and shot with a certain indulgence for natural light's gay vicissitudes (i.e., shades of gray and the occasional blinding sunburst)--stars as itself, showing off its social welfare services and those scrappy lower orders who compose both Joe's soccer team and, supplied with worse lines and hence less likable, the local hoodlums. Since Joe practices a strong allegiance to his "family," which includes Liam, and since former addict Liam and addict-at-large Liam's wife play fast and lose with debts to said hoodlums' boss, it's clear that too-willing-to-help...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet Joe Blank: A Recovering Alcoholic Tries The AA Way | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

Indeed, polls are now so essential to our national life that the President's approval rating will no doubt soon join the weather and the Dow Jones Industrial Average on every news update. Can't you hear it now? "It is currently 41 degrees and overcast in Central Park. In business news, the Dow closed down 128 points today, closing at 9,104. In Washington, the President's approval rating climbed one and two-fifths to 71.6 percent, hitting a new high. Now this...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Throw Us a Rope | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...real story on this overcast, blustery New Hampshire afternoon was the imposing play of the Crimson defense, in particular the front seven...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Mugs Dartmouth, 20-7 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Colleen Moore, a freshman forward on the Harvard women's soccer team, pinched the Quakers collectively and woke them from their sweet slumber with one swift kick on an overcast weekend afternoon...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Fresh Face | 10/6/1998 | See Source »

...Sunshine State knows all about storms. It can tell good clouds from nasty ones, a hurricane sky from one simply overcast. But a novel kind of darkness has come over Florida, and there is no hurricane in sight. What do you do when you're ready for rain and all that comes down is ash, falling like snow but dark and devilish and warm, from a heaven angry with smoke? Run, or get ready to be burned on the Fourth of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Inferno | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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