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...when the splashing subsided on Friday afternoon, Santa Barbara was on top, 23-3, and some were considering sending a diving team to scrape the Crimson off the bottom of the pool. Liz Brummond chalked up Harvard's first goal of the game in the third quarter when Santa Barbara had already scored three touchdowns. Tri-Captain Gillian Salton and freshman Skyler Satenstein rounded out the Crimson's field goal for the game with a goal apiece in the final quarter...
Harvard scored a run in each of the next four innings to take a 9-1 lead before Cornell managed to scrape up two runs in the fifth to account for the final score...
Barry's latest scrape could be the last straw for Washington voters, whose loyalty has been sorely tested by a string of embarrassing episodes. At least twelve of his top aides have been convicted of corruption. Allegations of cocaine use began to dog Barry after he made a 1981 visit to a topless club. He claimed he was soliciting campaign contributions. Then came the rendezvous with Lewis, who subsequently pleaded guilty to drug-conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Lewis claimed Barry smoked crack with him, which Barry denied...
...company is lurching from crisis to crisis. Campeau Corp. managed to scrape together $100 million last week to meet the deadline for paying suppliers who shipped the 257 U.S. stores everything from tank tops to tiaras. This week the firm hopes to persuade Citibank and other major lenders to roll over $2.3 billion of loans. But even if the creditors agree, the Canadian company must put its U.S. retail operations on a sound financial footing by taking drastic steps to trim costs and sell properties. Observes Wilbur Ross, senior managing director of the Wall Street firm Rothschild...
...AIDS epidemic. "A lot of the AIDS stories are old news, so we have to be enticing to make reporters cover them," says Pat Christen, executive director of the mainstream San Francisco AIDS Foundation. As for vandalism, ACT UP member Mark Kostopoulos declares, "It's easier to scrape off paint than raise the dead...