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...that a dose of hot chile, while not strictly medicinal, stimulates the senses and clears the mind, prodding the palate to the threshold between pleasure and pain. There are even some aficionados who tell of a "chile high," produced by the body's endorphins in reaction to the sting of the pepper...
...sting of the loss to the Terriers, which is certain to drop Harvard a few notches in both the Eastern and national rankings, should ensure a consistently strong outing today, as the Crimson needs to stay on top in the Ivy race in order to secure an NCAA bid later this season, and must not pass up this golden opportunity in its otherwise stiff schedule...
...Harvard Coach] Dave [Fish] has a thorough knowledge of the game. If any coach can take this young team to the NCAAs it would be Dave," Notre Dame Coach Bob Baylais said last week after his team felt the Crimson's sting...
...Harvard experiences have prepared him for it. Matt said he "know[s] people like [Dillon] who have wealth and power and are fifth generation" here at Harvard, though they are not bigots. He just "tapped into [these] friends" who had felt the pressures of prep school and the sting of bigotry...
...some of Oliver North's efforts to buy the freedom of American hostages in the Middle East (and lost at least $300,000 that was taken by middlemen who disappeared). In 1981 Perot agreed to a suggestion by agents of the U.S. Customs Service that he finance a drug sting in the Caribbean. The idea was to set up a landing strip on a foreign-owned island where agents would gather information on drug-carrying flights that would be induced to put down there. Customs could not operate an undercover enterprise in a foreign country, however, without clearing it through...