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Calling a time out, the Crimson players triedto get their heads back in the game, but controlcontinued to bounce back and forth amidst a sea ofyellow flags. The scoreboard remained unchanged asgoalies on both ends put a stop to shots on freepositions...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Lax Edges Columbia, 6-5 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Conway said that he and other organizers triedto focus the event on students' lack of input inthe administration's decision, but many of theabout 1,000 students who flocked to the rallymerely expressed anger...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Penn Tries To Solve Alcohol Problems | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

Shanies says that while her House office triedto be helpful, for instance, they had noexperience in dealing with pre-veterinarystudents...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pre-Vets, Pre-Meds Coexist | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

Other attacks have done little to raiseRappaport's credibility. For example, he has triedto peg Kerry with being "soft" on Iraqi PresidentSaddam Hussein for proposing that theinternational community should grant the Arableader some "wiggle room" in negotiating asettlement...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: A Long Trip Downhill | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...speech before the Soviet Union's Academyof Sciences, a Russian scholar, D.S. Likhachev,charged that library officials initially attemptedto conceal the extent of the damage by bringing ina bulldozer to clear debris quickly. "They triedto minimize the cultural losses in the most coarsefashion," he said...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Harvard Offers to Help Razed Leningrad Library | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

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