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Wilford followed junior center John Kadzielski in as fullbacks Grady Smalling and Chris Stakich came from behind and gave an extra push. There were a few nervous moments as the officials took their time taking apart the pile, but they finally signaled the touchdown, and Harvard had just what it needed to get over the late-game hump...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...tough call which is scarier: the red-in-tooth-and-claw depredations of a remote untamed wilderness--or a pack of Americans out to win a pile of money and look good on TV. Next summer the question should be answered, however, by CBS's Survivor, a million-dollar jungle showdown that might better be called The Real World: Pulau Tiga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Star Is Borneo | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Pearl Jam, reincarnated. Which would be fine except that Vedder isn't dead, so Stapp's vocal style comes across as a sort of ripoff. Still, Creed has its fans: the band's first album, My Own Prison, sold nearly 4 million copies. Its new CD, like Prison, features pile-driving hard rock and lyrics about spiritual longing. A few songs are agreeable in a middle-of-the-road sort of way. But that road is about as well traveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Human Clay | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...start to feel a deep-seeded need to take a hay ride, to sit on cold metal stands at a high school football game, or to pick some apples, bring them home and have Mom's homemade pie for dessert. Maybe there's time to jump in a pile of leaves or two, and then I'll spend the rest of the day picking them off my dirty flannel shirt. At night, I'd like nothing better than to throw some logs on the fire, turn on a football game and sit back with The New York Times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: How To: Cross a Street | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...said. "Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation." In the Chechen capital of Grozny, guerrilla leader Shamil Basayev displayed his own brand of black humor, calling for a massive hole to be dug in the Russian cemetery on the edge of the shattered city in preparation for a new pile of Russian corpses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Back Into The Inferno | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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