Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing under blue skies, the Crimson split a doubleheader with Yale on Saturday and swept Cornell on Sunday...
...bragging rights of Beantown in women's softball remained unclaimed yesterday, as Harvard and Boston University split a doubleheader at sun-drenched Soldiers Field...
...split left Harvard's overall record at an even 14-14 for the season. In Ivy play, the Crimson is 1-3 heading into important match-ups with Yale and Cornell this weekend...
Scratch one of these split-city operatives, and you find a compendium of social customs and byways of manners, as well as menus. Take the matter of health and fitness consciousness. New Yorkers are increasingly aware of sound nutrition, but Angelenos are far more enlightened -- and insistent. Not only must the food be healthy, the plate must look healthy too. "Here it does not matter what you order; what you get is a salad with something in it," says Jivan Tabibian, a partner in the L.A. Remi. "New Yorkers like substance. In Santa Monica, they like fluff -- and the fluff...
Ever watching calories, Angelenos love to share, a practice considered cheap in New York. A typical L.A. lunch features the inevitable salad, followed by a split portion of pasta (most likely angel hair, a mere filament of carbohydrate that is a California obsession and a chef's nightmare because it overcooks so readily). Orso, a Manhattan theater-district hangout, was determined to follow its pattern of one menu of trattoria-style Italian fare throughout the day and evening when it opened in Beverly Hills two years ago. The plan failed. Too many customers wanted a feather-light lunch...