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Sooner or later, B.U.'s relentless pressure had to tell, and it was lucky for the Eagles that they scored again before the Terriers responded. Reasoner's top-corner snipe at 1:25 of the third had all the trademarks of a game-winner--except that his opposition had no intentions of rolling over and dying...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: B.U. Wins Beanpot (Again) Versus B.C. | 2/11/1997 | See Source »

Freshman Jeff Brow, who had just skated into the zone in front of his teammates, cranked a slapshot from the left face-off circle. With the defender screening the Harvard net, the accurate snipe beat Crimson netminder J.R. Prestifilippo, to his right...

Author: By Bo Williams, | Title: Yale Still Perfect at Bright Hockey Center: Zero-for-Forever | 2/8/1997 | See Source »

...investigations that could paralyze both parties. So which will it be? A replay of July, when in one week the White House and Congress moved forward together on welfare reform, health-care portability and raising the minimum wage? Or a bitter trench war in which both sides hunker down, snipe at each other and avoid anything resembling common ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR JOURNEY IS NOT DONE | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...caught in the middle as the world's sole superpower and the world's most populous country snipe at each other. The list of recent incidents is considerable. Congress has introduced resolutions condemning China's "acts of aggression" in territorial disputes over the Spratly Islands. A CIA report last May said China might deserve sanctions because it sold ballistic-missile components to Iran and Pakistan. The U.S. is holding up China's application for membership in the World Trade Organization. And the U.S. recognition last week of Vietnam, China's neighbor and frequent enemy, fuels Beijing's fears that Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAUGHT IN THE CROSS FIRE | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

PRINT AND TV JOURNALISM DON'T usually mix well. Print journalists snipe that TV is shallow and addicted to sizzle, while TV journalists scoff that print is slow and ponderous. Here at Time Inc., however, detente has been declared, thanks largely to Joe Quinlan and George Kindel, executive producer and senior producer of The News Exchange, the company's TV-production unit. Our most recent peace dividend can be seen on April 5, when the Discovery Channel will air CyberSpace, a one-hour special filmed in collaboration with the TIME journalists who prepared the cyberspace issue published in mid-March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Apr. 3, 1995 | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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