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Here's a guess: lack of confidence. The ECAC schedule always conspires against the Crimson come exam-time, just as most of the league is starting to find its peak-season form, Harvard gets to hit the books and puts its game jerseys in mothballs for three weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Collapse | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...Crimson, although not at its peak, won by a comfortable margin against the Quakers, taking first place in 11 of 13 events...

Author: By Jill L. Brenner, | Title: M. Swimming Drowns Penn | 2/21/1995 | See Source »

...government insists it is trying to get to the bottom of the issue, but its efforts are widely viewed as slow and inept--a perception that has grown since the first and biggest bank closed its doors. That institution was Banco Latino, Venezuela's second largest, which at its peak claimed $1.4 billion in deposits. By the time the national banking superintendency took it over in January 1994, Latino's deposits had been reduced $1 billion. In going over the books, government inspectors uncovered false entries, fraudulent accounting and insider lending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: WE'RE ALL GOING TO PAY | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...fact, eight-year-old Harry is a big fan of books. His favorite is Bill Wallace's Danger on Panther Peak, which was originally titled Shadow of the Snow...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Bibliophobia | 2/18/1995 | See Source »

Never heard of it? Ask your parents. Althoughthe company is expanding and doing better thanever, Necco hit its name-recognition peak sometimearound when our parents were developing theirfirst crushes. Every good American kid wasfamiliar with the Necco wafer; priests placed thethin pastel discs on the tongues of childrenpracticing communion. Byrd brought the wafers tothe South Pole, and Macmillan took packages ofthem on his trip to the Arctic. Necco'shoneycomb/peanut Bolster Bar preceded the BartSimpson-famed Butterfinger. Upon the 1938launching of the Skybar, "a candy box in a bar,"skywriters and low-flying planes with trailingbanner-advertisements circled most of theNortheast...

Author: By Lisa K. Pinsley, | Title: NECCO Philia | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

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