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...Baltimore Orioles began the season with 21 consecutive losses. The O's would be known forever for that streak, unable to joyfully face into oblivion like any other bad team. The string of losses became their woeful, defining trademark...
Harvard would then rebound at the Harvard Yale-Princeton triangular in early February. That fall, the women' cross-country team won its H-Y-P for the first time in eight years, and the track and field team kept the string going, blowing out its rivals. The Crimson registered 91 points, while the Tigers and Elis only got 41 and 16, respectively...
...many software developers are also uneasy about Microsoft's next big moment, for as Gates' influence steadily grows, their own role inevitably shrinks. They are reduced to writing second-string software, while Microsoft reserves the big programs for itself. Microsoft, as former WordPerfect executive Pete Peterson once put it, "is the fox that takes you across the river and then eats...
...massive columns. In Ramesses' day the room would have seemed positively cavernous; now it's filled nearly to the top with rubble washed in over the centuries by infrequent flash floods. Anyone who wants to traverse the chamber has to crawl through a tight passage, lighted by a string of dim electric light bulbs, where the dirt has been painstakingly cleared away. "It's like crawling under a bed," says Time's Marlowe, "except that it goes on and on, and the ceiling above your head is studded with jagged outcroppings of rock that are in danger of caving...
DIED. RAY MCKINLEY, 84, drummer, singer, and pop-orchestra maestro whose crossbreeding of boogie-woogie with Big Band gave birth to a string of hits, including the memorable musical command Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar; in Largo, Florida...