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When Hill hit layups at the 10 and two second marks to pull with a basket, Harvard wished it had those phantom six seconds. Time ran out though on the Crimson...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Hit With Offensive Woes Against Pesky Huskies, 47-45 | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...more interesting. Rumors circulate: one account explains that early one morning, forty years ago, a cleaning lady vacuuming alone in Wadsworth House saw a grim character in a Tricorn hat and cloak silently come down the stairs and go out the door; another report describes the sounds of a phantom dinner party that filled the corridor by the southwest corner of University Hall, a displaced echo of the dining hall that occupied the building in the 19th century; and some remember hearing Bill Gannon, former sexton of Christ Church, claim that a British soldier who was thrown from a wagon...

Author: By Drake P. Bennett, | Title: Twilight Zone: The College Years | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...When you say 'organist' people usually think of the Phantom of the Opera," Forger says, noting that while the recent Halloween concert of "Scary Organ Music" sponsored by the Organ Society was packed, the society's funds ran dry this year. Finding ways to attract audiences to the society's guest organ recitals while expanding his own range with skilled organists at the College has become Forger's primary extracurricular activity...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Organists Are Just Normal People | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Former Assistant Professor of History Patricia N. Limerick found the phenomenon of slackerhood so pervasive that she wrote an article on what she calls the "Harvard phantom...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Andrew K. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HARVARD SLACKER | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

While the hearings did a good job of tracking Huang's money trail, they failed to fill out the portrait of a man who moved along his career track like a phantom. He left Lippo in 1994 for a mid-level job at the Commerce Department--one that his boss said he wasn't qualified for--and moved on, 18 months later, to the Democratic National Committee's finance office. How he engineered the moves has been a mystery--and remains one. Soon after Clinton's Inaugural, Democratic activist Maeley Tom, who worked as a Lippo consultant, wrote a letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONNECT THE DOTS | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

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