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...minutes later, Colorado's Cox was hurt while attempting to smother the ball in front of the goal. Daniels made a show of joining the medical staff to examine his player, which Wheaton protested loudly. This time, not even a warning was issued. Instead, the referee rebuked Wheaton and then restarted play...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Eases Past Lions and Buffaloes | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...strange disjunction between the private and public Gores stymies his friends, frustrates his advisers and puzzles the press. To one degree or another, all politicians suffer from it, of course. For most of their waking hours they have learned to smother their natural impulses, lest the videotape capture some untoward wisecrack or a flirtatious glance. They know the landscape of American politics is littered with the carcasses of colleagues who tried, with disastrous results, to be a normal human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AL GORE: HIS STRUGGLE TO GET REAL | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Students say they use the grilled chicken breasts to do a little cooking of their own--they slice it over salad, smother it in melted cheese, douse it in barbeque sauce...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: FEEDBACK | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...second half proved rougher for the men in Crimson, who were outscored 5-2. The defense had difficulty keeping Dartmouth away from the crease, and Chen spent a lot of time coming out of the net to smother shots from the crease or to check Dartmouth sticks...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Lax Stunned by Dartmouth, 14-13 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...then sought to smother it (and also inspired this Crimson piece) by hiring Harvard's Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies Daniel J. Goldhagen, who, in December 27, 1993 article for The New Republic, let loose a volley of hatchets against...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: A Holocaust of Scholarship | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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