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...result of that lack of emotion was a St.Lawrence goal only 48 seconds into the secondperiod. A Crimson turnover in its own zone allowedSaints defenseman Justin Harney to swoop acrossthe front of the net with the puck. Prestifilipposlid across the crease accordingly, but somehowHarney lost the puck. Saints forward John Poapst,who was following the play, found the loose puckand knocked...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clarkson, St. Lawrence Two-Time M. Hockey | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...fell swoop, Harvard has increased the payout by 20 percent, a quantum leap away from an average increase of about 10 percent per year. The fiscal conservatism of the last decade seems to have been thrown out the window...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Loosens Purse Strings | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

Within the next minute, in some small town, a clueless 14-year-old will slip white shoes onto her black-stockinged legs, and no one will stop her. No leonine six-footer will swoop down from the sky to grab the pumps from her pudgy little feet and rescue her from fashion disaster. No, the skies are empty today. Because the supermodel is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the Supermodel | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...drawings and artifacts, and a dream ranch in Ann Arbor where herds of buffalo roamed. Monaghan explained those sprees as compensation for the fact that his mother abandoned him at the age of four to foster homes and an orphanage. As owner of the Detroit Tigers, he liked to swoop down on home games in his helicopter. He once considered building a 35-story slanted tower dubbed--what else?--the Leaning Tower of Pizza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Pizza, Pride and Piety | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

There are a lot of questions in Northern Ireland right now, and very little in the way of answers. Nobody knows much about the five men arrested in an early morning swoop in the town of Omagh Monday, except that they were wanted in connection with the most bloody terrorist attack in the territory's recent history. The perpetrators of Saturday's car-bomb attack that killed 28 people and wounded 220 are unknown, although police suspect a Republican splinter group that calls itself the Real IRA. But why would they plant a bomb in a mostly Catholic town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omagh Bomb Blast: The 'Real' Thing? | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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