Word: two
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Probably not. But Harvard dropped a pair of games to Boston University and Brown, two teams that the Crimson was expected to beat...
...loss to B.U. two weeks ago was almost excusable, given that it was a non-conference game after a ten-day respite. This match up was more for pride than points, and the Crimson was forced to swallow it as the Terriers claimed a 2-1 victory...
...silence is deafening: Two days after the Mars Polar Lander was supposed to have touched down and started sending back signals from the Red Planet's south pole, and still there is no word. The possibilities: The craft could have gone into a protective sleep mode after impact, and has so far missed its window of opportunity for transmission back to Earth. It's also conceivable that the probe landed on its side, making a clear transmission path even more difficult. The possibility that NASA doesn't want to think about yet is that the craft didn't survive...
...Two days earlier, "Victory Tower" had been the sum of our outside existence - the 10-minute thrills of rappelling, rope bridges and cargo netting suffocated almost completely by eight hours of long lines and inaction. (Try "Renaissance Man," filmed here, if you can stand it.) On Wednesday we got to be in the Army - we got to go on a road march. All rigged up with helmets, rucksacks and LCES (a suspenders-and-a-half getup for canteens and ammo), we hit Fort Jackson's well-worn trails and saw South Carolina's scrubby pine-and-sand version of nature...
...hardly needs saying that boot camp is hardly a place for the thoughtful, but here solitude is almost mathematically impossible to find. Go to the latrine at three in the morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without...