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Late pressure brought Colgate back within three, but Grancio's superb defense on Foyle preserved the Harvard lead. In one particularly exciting sequence, Grancio, pushed the bigger, stronger Foyle away from the basket and reached around him to steal the entry pass...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, | Title: M. Cagers Paste Colgate, 63-54 | 1/10/1996 | See Source »

...fatal mistake. Rather than concentrate solely on Iowa, he is campaigning hard in several other early but lightly contested elections in the hope of stockpiling delegates elsewhere. The strategy has a price: Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Dole backer, has criticized Gramm for campaigning in Louisiana, which plans to steal the limelight from Iowa by holding caucuses a week earlier, on Feb. 6. Gramm recently spent a weekend in Alaska, where he courted voters by himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT STARTS | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...awful showdown. The powerful elderly and nursing-home lobbies will be fighting for Medicaid expansions to serve seniors. The only pot of money big enough to raid will be education, a state's biggest expense, which averages 30% of state spending. If state legislatures bow to pressure and steal from the classroom, communities will have to raise property taxes to protect their local schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE IT MAY REALLY HURT | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...Bears were among the Ivy League's top three-point shooting teams last season, converting on 37.4 percent of their attempts from behind the arc. And with Ivy League Rookie of the Week Kamal Roundtree--a 6-8 forward--beginning to establish himself, Brown might just steal one of its first two league games at Penn and Princeton come January...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, | Title: Big Green Takes Early League Lead | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...Their style is very European, their picks are unusual, their offensive sets are extremely European," Delaney Smith--an American--said. "In fact, we might steal one or two of them." With the exception of sophomore wunderkind Allison Feaster, who contributed 19 points and 9 rebounds in the losing cause, the Crimson offense was pitiful, turning the ball over 21 times in the first half alone...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: Euro Hoops | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

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