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...October, undergraduates were plagued with a string of violent crimes directly targeting Harvard students...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Crime Drops in Cambridge | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...victory broke a string of five straight losses to Princeton. With the tiger, err monkey, off its back, the Crimson closed out the series in commanding fashion the following afternoon, winning 22-4 and forcing an NCAA Regional best-of-three play-in series with Army...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Giant Killers | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

With the final tally from the Nov. 2 election finally in Lawrence S. DiCara '71 wins a seat on the Boston City Council, after spending $16,000 on a shoe-string campaign. Romagna loses in his bid for the Cambridge City Council...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Flashback to 1971-'72 | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

That band he talks about was, of course, Creedence Clearwater Revival, one of the most successful of all American rock groups and, hands down, one of the greatest. From roughly mid-1968 through 1972, Creedence had a string of gold albums and Top 10 singles (Proud Mary, Lodi, Who'll Stop the Rain), almost all written by Fogerty. But the band broke up in 1972, burned out and greatly ticked off that the lion's share of the attention was directed to Fogerty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SONGS OF SURVIVAL | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space station. But TIME's Jeffrey Kluger reports that such difficulties are to be expected from an aging and underfunded space program. "The lack of funding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Landing | 5/20/1997 | See Source »

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