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With the Lions attempting to mount a scoring drive with a first down at their own 19-yard line, Thomason took one step out of the pocket and, with senior defensive end Chris Smith bearing down hard on him from the left side, he fired a strike straight to Jackson at the 38-yard line...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Waxes Columbia 45-7 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Take, for example, the on-again, off-again passing game of sophomore quarterback Rich Linden. Much praised-and deservedly so-for decision-making ability beyond his years in the starter's slot last season, Linden had some rocky moments in the pocket on Saturday afternoon...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Reserving Judgement | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...Fortunately that summer [before junior year] when he was treated he virtually went in the day school ended and incidently he ended up getting out of the hospital the day I went back to preseason," said Stauffer. "So it was this tight pocket of time where I wasn't pulled and I could give just everything I had to my brother...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soccer Star Leaves Field For Family | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

CUPERTINO, Calif.: Effectively splashing out two-thirds of its pocket money from Microsoft, Apple Computer has snapped up one of the leading producers of Macintosh clones. Their $100 million stock purchase of Power Computing Corp, coming hot on the heels of Bill Gates' $150 million investment in Apple, may seem rather quixotic given that the company's share of the overall computer market has been squeezed to under 5 percent by cheap PCs. "They could buy up all their competitors, and still not make any progress," says TIME's computer industry analyst David Jackson. "It's like bringing your uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apple Ropes in a Clone | 9/2/1997 | See Source »

...Summer Olympics ? who spent around $100 million strutting their stuff ? will be spending the holiday weekend in an excrutiating wait for the judges' verdict. All but one of the delegations from Athens, Rome, Stockholm, Buenos Aires, and Cape Town will go home humiliated and out-of-pocket when the International Olympic Committee convenes in Lausanne, Switzerland next Wednesday. Here they will announce the winning venue for the first games, technically speaking, of the new millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Week's News Now | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

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