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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eckert opened Harvard's lead by four after Ferrucci made a spectacular one-handed catch mid-field and found a wide-open Eckert, but that was as much daylight as the Crimson would see in the period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Lacrosse Downs Cornell | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...currently three points shy of this amazing feat. And for the rest of the seniors on the team, it will be their last home game in what has so far been a spectacular season. Cornell 12 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Lacrosse Downs Cornell | 5/2/1996 | See Source »

...will give him his eighth N.B.A. scoring title. He scores differently nowadays though. "He's not quite as explosive as he was five years ago," says Bulls guard Steve Kerr, "but he's stronger and a better shooter. His fadeaway jump shot is now his signature move, not the spectacular drive to the basket." That's not to say Jordan is getting old at 33. He can still put on a show, especially if he wants to teach the younger players in the league a lesson. Back on Jan. 13, he lit up the 76ers for 48 points just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASKETBALL: CUNNING OF THE BULLS | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

Where the story breaks down, though, it breaks down in a big way. That's almost certainly the case with what Schliemann called Priam's Treasure, a group of spectacular objects he found in 1873. "I cut out the treasure with a large knife," Schliemann wrote, "which it was impossible to do without the very greatest exertion and the most fearful risk of my life, for the great fortification wall, beneath which I had to dig, threatened every moment to fall down upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TROY'S LOST TREASURE | 4/22/1996 | See Source »

...Harvard looks as if they might be ready. The 12th-ranked team has been playing excellent team defense since the Duke game and junior Rob Lyng has been spectacular in goal. With 36 saves in Harvard's last two contests, Lyng earned himself a spot on last week's Ivy Honor Roll...

Author: By Connor Schell, | Title: M. Lacrosse Showdown Set | 4/13/1996 | See Source »

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