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Because New Haven's Rocsatonic River has a pronounced curve in the middle, the boats must start the race with a three-seat stagger. Radcliffe got off to a good start, and slowly made up the stagger on Yale. By the 500-meter mark, the visitors had pulled ahead for good...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Radcliffe Crews Annihilate Host Bulldogs | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

First they arrived in a trickle, which quickly became an ever increasing stream, then a flood. Gaunt, starving, often dressed in rags, thousands of Ethiopian refugees continued to stagger across the drought-stricken northern wastelands of their country last week. Their destination was neighboring Sudan. On their heels came disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethiopia Flight From Fear | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

WELL, WHAT'S UP for fun tonight? Monday to Thursday is always off, don't you know. But come to think of it, there is a rather rum do transpiring at a nearish stagger. Jeeves Takes Charge it's called. It's been reconstructed from those books by that Wodehouse fellow, sort of the way you might paste together the torn letters in your lover's dustbin. You can seek it out at the Tasty--no, that's not it--the Hasty Pudding for another two weeks...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sunai, | Title: The Butler Does It All | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

Mondale, Hart and Jackson stagger through the final round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Call, and Out Reeling | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...Owner Dennis Heffernan: "He swam more than once every day. I would see him three or four times a day. He did have a few drinks at the bar, but no more than anyone else, not an unusual amount. I never saw him take a misstep, never saw him stagger or anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Caught in the Undertow | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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