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Despite aggressive midfield play by Tri-Captain Kate Felsen, the Crimson was still unable to threaten the Brown goal until three minutes were left in the game. Bruin goalie Sarah Lamont continued her masterful freshman campaign by kicking away one final Harvard threat in the last minute to close out the shutout--the Crimson's third consecutive loss...
...Arsenic was ever funny seems a mystery. This alleged black comedy is really a Victorian comedy of manners in disguise. Mortimer Brewster and Elaine Harper are in love, but the antics and machinations of his relatives threaten to destroy the romance. The twist is that his relatives are all crazy, and some of their antics are murderous...
Harvard officials said they were not concerned about the boost in Defense Department grants because these grants account for only 7 percent of overall Harvard research. But the officials cautioned that reliance on Pentagon money could threaten academic freedom if it assumed a larger role...
...year-olds are still packing Fantasy World, while a federal court considers a challenge to the no-booze law. "The city council thought all the topless-bar owners would roll over on their backs," said Colazzo. Far from it. Even if they win in court, the tavern keepers threaten to sue the city again -- for "mental anguish...
Shilts, who is openly gay, is equally tough on the gay community, which, he says, transformed its civil rights movement in the '70s into "omnipresent carnality." In the face of rampant disease, he says, gay leaders resisted calling for sexual restraint, fearing that it would threaten their hard-won liberation. He adds that the owners of gay "back room" bars and bathhouses were prominent contributors to gay political groups and major advertisers in gay newspapers, and thus unduly influenced the debate. In one grim scene, a bathhouse owner tells a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, "We're both...