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After a poor start to the season in non-league games, Frey (the nation's leading three point shooter last year at 51.5 percent) has rebounded with strong play in the league...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: W. Cagers on Road | 2/18/1994 | See Source »

...other hand, though, when the Crimson fans weren't celebrating, they were shaking their heads in disgust. Harvard was outscored 50-33 in the second half and allowed New Hampshire's 5-2 senior guard Marcie Lane--a previous 20 percent three-point shooter--to nail six treys and garner 29 points on the night...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Cagers Lose Lead | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

Postmodern directors have been shaking up grand opera for quite a while, especially in European cities like Hamburg, where this production was first unveiled in 1990. But rarely has opera received a shaking like this. The victim is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (The Free-Shooter). First performed in 1821, it was the granddaddy of all German Romantic operas, with its setting of a folktale about a forester who accepts magic bullets from the Devil to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. For Waits, Burroughs and Wilson, what the opera provided wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Disciples | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

With the graduation of Tyler Rullman, who was second in the Ivy League in free throw percentage, Harvard lost its best shooter from the line...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Free Throws the Big Difference | 11/30/1993 | See Source »

...Snoop. Besides racking up strong sales for his second album, Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z., last summer he played a postal worker who romances Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice, the film by Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton. But judging from his background, Shakur might have been a shooter no matter what career he had pursued. In a sense he was doing time even before he was born. His mother Afeni is a former Black Panther, one of a group accused in the early 1970s of conspiring to plant bombs in New York. Though eventually acquitted, she spent part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shootin' Up the Charts | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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