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News of the verdict swept through the city. Dale Short, a free-lance writer who has been covering the trial, had left and stopped by a liquor store. "They had the TV on and it came on and the people started calling out in jubilation," he said. "'He's been charged,' one of them said. And I said, 'You mean convicted?' And they said yeah, convicted...
...Instead, because of Crockett’s effort, the Big Green must now wait and see how Brown fares this week against Cornell. It would have been easier for Dartmouth if they could have just swept Harvard...
...been over a century since changes this dramatic swept HLS, Coquillette says, and Zittrain predicts a bright future for the school, though he says that if the changes do not produce the desired result, HLS is not averse to backtracking...
...team hopes to sustatin that momentum going into another critical contest this weekend. Since Harvard swept Dartmouth and Cornell only mustered a split against the Big Red, the series is a home one for the Crimson...
...When we disembarked in Florida, my grandmother took one look at my parents? haggard faces and swept my brother and me off to spoil us rotten, while my grandfather, chuckling, led my parents off to find a dark, quiet, childproof room. It?s very possible that my brother and I were holy terrors - although my sense is that we were actually pretty well behaved. No, it was mostly the inherent problem of long-distance train travel for people other than kids or crazy romantics: too slow, confining and expensive compared with the alternatives. My parents still blanch visibly whenever...