Word: tied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stops between Putnam Avenue and Central Square attract swarms of yuppies at this time of morning. Today, a stocky blonde in a tie and wire-rimmed glasses slickly swipes his floppy red bus pass with one hand. The other clasps a clear Starbucks cup containing some creamy, brown half-solid substance. He sits down in a row of others like him, facing the rear door. Conversation ensues, but this man takes more interest in ensuring that not a drop of latte falls on his black wool coat than in his seat-mates' chatter...
...female mass of passengers announce that they are from Northeastern University. They're headed to an Angry Salad concert at the Middle East. "What is Angry Salad?" a bystander asks. "Think Counting Crows meets Goo Goo Dolls," one replies. They turn their attention to a man wearing black tie and carrying grocery bags. They prod him, poke him and question him. I change lanes suddenly and the girls fall onto an entertwined high school couple...
...proves worthy; Yale 29, Harvard 21, 42 seconds remaining. Onside kick. Harvard recovers, quickly drives down the field. Three seconds remaining, eight yard line. On the final play, Gatto catches touchdown pass for the score. Down two, no time remaining. Two point conversion successful, game ends in 29-29 tie. Both Harvard and Yale finish with identical 8-0-1 records...
...Over 30 years later, what is striking is not just the comeback itself, but the fact that the stars had aligned themselves such that with under a minute remaining, Harvard needed two touchdowns plus two two-point conversions to tie the game. No room for error whatsoever. There would be no possibility of a win, only a tie. Circumstance so rarely affords any team or individual to play out a heroic miracle such as that; when and while it happens, it almost seems preordained that the miracle outcome might manifest...
...Milgram believes the strategy's working; he and his fellow ice cream-scoopers remain enthusiastic because, he says, "We have an owner who is hip to everything and lets us choose. But we can't play anything too extreme---except late-night." If it was up to his tie-dyed coworker, Tessabelle Walker, "The only thing that would be playing is bootleg Phish and the Dead." Other Toscanini's staples include Portishead and Radiohead---and the microsundae...