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...grizzled pirate with a peg leg and a parrot on his shoulder will gladly tell you, even the swabbiest sailors can do very little with a weak wind at their backs...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Rides Sparse Winds to Third Place Finish | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Verdini, Miree and Alford also had their struggles with Fordham's closest thing to a star receiver--Gerry McDermott, who avenged a weak first half with seven catches for 101 yards in the second half...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Secondary Suffers Without Waller | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...weather did not cooperate with the plans of the Harvard women's sailing team at the Yale Women's Intersectional this weekend. The weak winds cancelled many of the scheduled races, leading to a less-than-spectacular competition. In the limited schedule, the Crimson managed to salvage a ninth-place finish...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Sailing 9th at Yale Intersectional | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...idea of "yuppie angst" seems inherently oxymoronic. Yuppies are clean-cut, clear-headed people with successful jobs, shiny new sport utility vehicles, a weak spot for IKEA furniture, and happy families barbecuing behind white-picket fences. With such stability in their lives, what could yupsters possibly have to be all worked up about or dissatisfied with? Well, precisely that: stability. As Brad Pitt's character Tyler Durden mentions in Fight Club, thirty-somethings are the "middle children of history:" forgotten in the shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

Defensively, Butler is weak, but is doing an admirable job of keeping that fact from affecting its performance. Sidelined with a broken finger earlier this season, freshman goaltender Tricia Czerniak will be participating only as a spectator...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Flies to South Florida, Faces Butler and Miami | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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