Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday everything came together, and the Crimson touch was magic. Bain, Lemmon and Brad Desaulniers, in "A" division, beat their opponents to advance to the semi-finals. Chip Robie, playing on a swollen ankle, and Charlie Duffy both dropped close four-game matches and entered consolations. The Crimson stood within a point of Princeton, going into Saturday afternoon's semi-finals...
...Pudding audiences find it less funny to see an actress fondle a mop-end than an actor in drag? When the audience guffaws as the kick-line picks up its skirts to reveal red garters and yellow panties, what is it laughing at--the drag? More often, the semi-sloshed, thigh-slapping enjoyment at the Pudding Show seems almost prurient--as though the audience would like to see the real thing, but will settle for licensed imitation. It's just one of those little incongruities that can creep into your mind if you haven't been popping champagne corks...
...instead of coming from 17 down early in the second half and roaring back for the win, the Crimson managed to cut the lead to two with just over five minutes left, but then succumbed to the Huskies' four-corner, semi-stall offense, 72-67, which Northeastern coach Jim Calhoun had instituted following the Harvard second-half surge...
After advancing to the semi-finals, the squad was drubbed 4-1 by Mexico's A team. Duffy, after dropping the first two games, made a tremendous comeback to pick up the team's only...
...idealists, who are frequently disappointed during their careers." Compounding the problem is the feeling of omnipotence that many doctors develop after they save their first lives. Later on, this can make it difficult for them to admit they need help. "They believe themselves to be omnipotent," says Litman, "semi-deities in a white smock." Finally, doctors have easy access to drugs. Says Psychologist Louis Wekstein of Boston's Tufts University: "Psychotherapy is almost a last resort. They've exhausted their own knowledge and used every strategy-such as minor tranquilizers and alcohol...