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Heading into the Big Red contest, the Crimson was still reeling from the near-shocker against visiting Colgate on Friday...
While focusing on Bush's status as a sitting vice president, though, most of these pundits missed the gig on Dukakis--no Democratic governor from Massachusetts has ever won the presidency. So it really was no big shocker that Bush won four years ago, despite the historical hurdles he had to clear...
This was a Shocker. Sure, Cornell was good, but Dartmouth...Dartmouth was a juggernaut. Dartmouth was going all the way to its show-down with Princeton undefeated...
This little shocker is just the beginning of a long, ambitious first novel by a young Mississippian. The publisher has ordered up a 75,000-copy first printing. Director Alan Pakula (Klute, All the President's Men) has bought it for the movies. What Donna Tartt has attempted -- and largely brought off -- is a challenging combination of a mystery (will they get caught or won't they?), an exploration of evil, both banal and bizarre, and a generous slice of the world as seen by the author, a brainy graduate of Bennington who has mastered Greek and English literature...
...firm's new cancer-therapy drug was imminent, there was a stampede to buy the company's stock. By Jan. 7, Bioscience's share price hit an all-time high of 85, before a 2-for-1 split at mid-month. But on Jan. 31 came a shocker: a Food and Drug Administration panel decided not to recommend approval of the new drug, known as Ethyol...