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Midway through overtime, Brown forward Patricia Beatini tallied on a point-blank stuff. The Bruins held on for the victory and the championship. The clock struck midnight, and the carriage turned back into a pumpkin...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Fairy Tales Don't Always Come True | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson (6-2 overall, 2-0 Ivy) scored its lone tally after a frantic flurry of point-blank shots early in the second half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stickwomen Squeak Past Crusaders | 10/11/1989 | See Source »

...cannot lead a complex University and develop and execute long-range plans when the political practice and reality are such that the president of the University can be told point-blank that so major an issue has been decided," White said. "This is simply not the environment in which I am willing to work...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: An Academic Power Struggle in Maryland | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...ruling on 16- and 17-year-olds grew out of murder cases against Kevin Stanford of Kentucky and Heath Wilkins of Missouri. Stanford was 17 in 1981 when he held up a gas station, then sodomized a female attendant and shot her in the head at point-blank range. At 16 Wilkins repeatedly stabbed a woman owner of a convenience store in the neck and chest during a 1985 robbery. Justice Scalia emphasized that the constitutionality of sentencing 16- and 17- year-olds to death depends on the "evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Bad News for Death Row | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Harvard had tied the score, 2-2, late in the first quarter when attacker David Kramer curled a bounce shot past Bruin netminder Steve Ayers. But with 1:32 gone in the second period, Bruin attacker Richard Tuohey flicked a point-blank shot past a lunging Miller to give Brown the lead...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Bruins Aggravate Laxmen's Troubles, 9-7 | 4/20/1989 | See Source »

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