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Despite the string of congressional scandals, longtime observers of the Legislative Branch insist it is far cleaner now than in the 1950s and '60s, when special interests fished for congressional votes with envelopes of cash. "It was a common practice in those days for a lobbyist to come to a member of Congress and hand him an envelope and say, 'Here, this is for your campaign,' says former Representative Rod Chandler, a Washington Republican. "It was a nod-and-a-wink thing. 'If you use it on your campaign, fine. If not, that's up to you.' Nothing even approaching...
...tree. Brown's girlfriend was killed instantly. His 14-year-old daughter died a few minutes later. Brown, 41, who was seriously injured, was allegedly driving drunk. He shouldn't have been on the road in any condition -- his license had been suspended in 1992 after a long string of traffic violations...
...team began showing slight improvement in the losses to Yale and Hartford, and that carried over into its last seven games, its most successful string of softball in recent memory. The team garnered victories in all but one of those contests--a 6-5 loss to Brown and closed out the season on an undeniably positive note...
...fiercely, splitting the first four games and matching each other point-for-point in the tie-breaking fifth, 13-13, a situation giving cause for a five point tiebreaker. With the crowd behind him, Dean went up 4-2, and, for one brief moment, it looked like Harvard's string of three-straight national championships was over...
After the Pomona loss, Harvard returned to the East Coast in time to put in a string of solid performances at various invitationals. It went 3-1 at the UMass-Amherst tourney, beating Brown and losing only to Metro-Boston, a team of former college stars. It went 4-1 at its own Harvard Invitational, beating a tough Princeton team to clinch the league championship, and again losing only to Metro-Boston. And it went 3-0 at the MIT Invitational...