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Harvard tied the game five minutes into the second half, but the outcome was still in doubt going into the final minute of play. With 1:21 remaining, UNH's Shaft Lewis hit a jumper to tie the game, 62-62. On Harvard's next possession, Tarik Campbell put the Crimson up for good with a running layup. Shaft then missed a 15-footer, and Crimson guard Tyler Rullman hauled in the rebound. Rullman, who had been silent for most of the evening, then took over from the foul line to ice the victory. Rullman accounted for the Crimson...
...attacks was spectacular. At a Friday briefing in Saudi Arabia, Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner showed videotapes of two laser-guided bombs sailing through the open doors of a bunker in which an Iraqi Scud missile was stored, and a third plopping down the rooftop air shaft of a tall building in Baghdad -- apparently the headquarters of the Iraqi air force -- and then blowing off the top floors. Bombs and missiles also hit other targets around and even in the heart of Baghdad -- Saddam's presidential palace, for one -- while apparently doing little damage to civilian lives or < property...
...century mining camp, Troop 501 is eating dehydrated lasagna softened by boiling water and the evening's drizzle. It is oddly tasty. Bearded "miners" like Jedediah Ezekial Springfield (eagle scout Trey Berlin, 21, of Richmond, Ky.) offer to teach gold panning and to provide tours of the abandoned mine shaft; they speak in twangy "interpretive accents." After dinner, the miners put on a "stomp" with guitar music and surprisingly pungent jokes. Another day's hike leads to a cattle ranch set in a lush green valley. At that campfire, a talented cowboy-guitarist nicknamed Fluffy performs the Oreo Cookie Blues...
...that it had an atom bomb program. The country's new civilian President, Fernando Collor de Mello, has admitted publicly that such a military effort was under way, and has ordered it closed down. He shoveled a symbolic two scoops of lime into a 1,050-ft. test-site shaft last month and ordered the site closed...
...third goal was so flukey," said Harvard's Martina Albright, "It went off the shaft of Judy Parish's stick. Up to that point it was a deserved overtime. They were having a good game...