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...three unearned runs were all courtesy of an unusual catcher's interference call on BU's Taj Tedrow. With Harvard ahead 3-0, sophomores James Crowley and Bo Bernhard attempted a double steal. Senior Phil Andriola swung at the pitch, but Tedrow panicked at the sight of the men stealing and got in the way of Andriola's bat. Harvard Head Coach Leigh Hogan complained to the umpires after they failed to take any action and succeeded in getting the interference call...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Fenway Magic: Baseball Mauls BU | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

...GRIM STANDOFF NEAR WACO, TEXAS, BEtween the Branch Davidian cult and hundreds of federal officers, negotiations swung back and forth between confrontation and conciliation. The FBI, having already tightened the psychological screws by cutting off power to the 78-acre compound, beamed high-intensity lights on the complex at night and avoided cult leader David Koresh's endless telephonic religious chatter. Lawmen then had their first face-to-face meeting with Koresh's top lieutenants, and two days later agents drove three buses to the compound in anticipation of a mass surrender of the 105 men, women and children still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mood Swings | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

...swung through the elegant junior common room (presumably the reason it's always locked and unavailable to members) outfitted with balloons, crepe paper and exquisite hors d'oeuvres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine House | 3/13/1993 | See Source »

Harvard never trailed in the fifth game, but it also never led by more than two points until the final play. However, a key one-point penalty against MIT swung the momentum the Crimson's way with the score at nine...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: M. Spikers Survive MIT Scare in 5 | 3/12/1993 | See Source »

Stock prices swung . . . er . . . crazily. Down 83 points on Tuesday, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, after Clinton's Monday night TV preview. Marking time Wednesday. Thursday, sequential chaos: up 35 points early, then down around 40, then recovering to a loss of only around 10. Friday, up, down, sideways and up at the end, for a gain of almost 20 points on the day -- but a loss of roughly 70, or 2%, for the week. Fundamentally, stock traders were highly nervous. They were worried that the higher taxes Clinton proposed would, at least in the short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bonds: Up. Stocks: Down, Up, Down . . . | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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