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...first down, Wilford faked an option pitch left, freezing linebacker Patrick Colgan. He stepped right by Colgan and darted into the end zone, expanding Harvard's lead...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Wins Again, Now 2-0 | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Wilford ran the option effectively to both sides, showing that he can pitch the ball with the left hand as well as the right...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wilford Shows He Has Strong Legs, Too | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Called Life," about the trials of being a teenager and the equal trials of being a parent. Sometimes it seems to be an adult indie flick, in which bizarre actions have a way of seeming less strange when you look at them up close. Sometimes it's just a pitch-black comedy about the mean things people say to each other when they don't care if they draw blood. Most times, also, it brings to mind films like The Truman Show, about characters breaking out of a world--or a life--that has become a prison...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Name of the Rose | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...talk and speculation has reached fever pitch in Russia, amid the climate of panic generated by the recent apartment bombings. The authorities announced Thursday that police in the southern city of Ryazan had defused a massive bomb in an apartment building after residents reported seeing sacks unloaded from a truck with a covered number plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moscow Gears Up for a New Chechnya War | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

With his usual splash of ceremony, President Clinton set up in the Rose Garden on Thursday and hit the $792 billion slow pitch. He vetoed the Republicans? tax bill and ritually disparaged it as a measure that would "turn us back to the failed policies of the past" at a time when the economy ? read, his economy ? is running like a dream. And although part of the show demanded that Clinton grab some high ground with a call for compromise ? a rejiggered cut of, say, $300 billion "would be a good bill I would happily sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Slays Giant Tax Cut. Next? | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

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