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With the Harvard team down after three Cornell goals within a 15-minute span, the shutout streak seemed safe. But at 84:14, senior midfielder Armando Petruccelli broke through the stingy Cornell defense, and scored an unassisted goal...

Author: By Colin S. Donnelly, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Chews Up M. Soccer, 3-1 | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

...squat, twin-arched concrete bridge at No Gun Ri was built to span a small creek. But for a terrifying three days in late July 1950, it spanned a killing field. Last week the Pentagon was stunned by an Associated Press report, backed up by eyewitness accounts, that a frightened U.S. Army unit had killed as many as 300 civilians at No Gun Ri in the opening weeks of the Korean War. Such a bloodbath would rank as the century's second deadliest committed by U.S. troops, trailing only the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, where G.I.s killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bridge at No Gun Ri | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Regardless of how it began, "all of a sudden, machine guns started firing into the crowd of people under the bridge," recalls George Preece of Dunnville, Ky., then a sergeant, who manned a machine gun on the railroad tracks at one end of the span. Several former soldiers said the firing continued unabated for 30 min. "They were hugging the concrete floor, and I could hear screams--of pain and horror--coming from women and children," Daily says. James Kerns of Piedmont, S.C., then a sergeant, was firing another machine gun, and says he deliberately aimed to miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bridge at No Gun Ri | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...evil balloons carrying little children. This might not quite appeal to your sense of humor, but the films are short enough, ranging from the one-minute Forrest Dump and Foreskin Gump to the longest piece, the six-minute Swing Sluts, that you don't need a particularly long attention span. This is a great show to see after a full day of exercising your Harvard intellectual abilities. Give it a rest...

Author: By Dunia Dickey and Jennifer Paniza, S | Title: Cinemanic: More Sick, More Twisted | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Brown (2-6-1, 0-2-1 Ivy) lost two nail-biters on the road in span of three days...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Roundup | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

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