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...longer?...The big college hockey action this winter break won't be in some backwoods, Empire State hell-hole, as it usually is. This time, it's in Inglewood, Calif., which, depending on your standards, isn't much of an improvement. The Great Western Forum will host its annual shootout featuring Lake Superior State, Maine, Western Michigan and Princeton (huh?). The Bears-Lakers likely championship match on December 20 should be very interesting...Harvard Captain Ted Drury may make the Hobey Baker Finalist list, but don't count out St. Lawrence's Greg Carvel. After collecting four assists...
Twelve-year-old Dan Phillips of Marshfield, Mass. triumphed over his competitor in the Pizza Pier hockey shootout by scoring four goals in 20 seconds from the blue-line...
...then the awards. Most of them are big-time honors. One wonders, though, why the bio includes the "Golden Plate Award." And why exactly does it mention the celebrity shootout at the Boston Garden--"he hit 13 free throws in 90 seconds? Nice shooting, but who cares? The end of the bio is a copy of a special "Dersh" card from Trivial Pursuit...
...Crimson's last victory over the Cadets was eight years ago, a 24-21 battle at the Stadium. In 1989, the last time the two teams met, Army rolled over Harvard, 56-28, in a shootout at West Point...
Even as those probes got under way, investigators in Colombia and Luxembourg examined dealings between Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, a leader of the Medellin cocaine cartel who died in a 1989 shootout with police, and a Colombian shadow bank that B.C.C.I. used to launder drug money. Among other things, the probers want to know why Colombian prosecutors slapped B.C.C.I. with a token $10,000 fine after discovering that the shadow bank took in a whopping $45 million in foreign currency in just six months in 1986 -- six times the amount B.C.C.I.'s Colombia branch reported for the entire year...