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That "it" is an inability to clear the defensive boards, which cost Harvard (2-9) a chance to end a two-week long losing skein...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Cagers Cannot Handle Miner, 49ers | 1/4/1991 | See Source »

Graffiti is a bridge to nowhere, unless you consider another safari through Prince's quasi-mystical subconscious a trip worth taking. Shot entirely in Minneapolis, mostly on the sound stage of Prince's $10 million music- and film-production facility, Paisley Park, the film looks like a skein of rock videos strung around a badly frayed plot line. It has something to do with Prince's falling in love with an angel. Also something to do with Prince's playing his music his way and with his vanquishing the forces of musical vandalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Thriving on Home Turf | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

That "it" is an inability to clear the defensive boards, which cost Harvard (2-9) a chance to end a two-week long losing skein...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Cagers Cannot Handle Miner, 49ers | 1/4/1990 | See Source »

October 13: The field hockey team upends Cornell, 1-0, ending a six-game scoreless skein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Year in Review | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...accused of ordering the 1976 murder of ex-Ambassador to Washington Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington. It was the caller in Chile who identified himself as an Israeli ultra-nationalist protesting the U.S.-P.L.O. talks. For someone merely interested in having strawberries on his cornflakes, the three-continent skein of commerce and terrorism was growing absurd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Dare To Eat A Peach? | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

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