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...captain Terri Teller led the Crimson'soffense with a gutsy weekend performance. Tellerwent 5-for-6 on Saturday and scored thegame-winning run in yesterday's nightcap with adaring sprint to the plate on a wild pitch inextra innings...
Freshman Lisa Watanabe followed with a grounderto short, but Kathy Ching threw high to first,allowing Watanabe to reach and LaSovage to scoreHarvard's first run. After Watanabe advanced tosecond on a wild pitch, Harvard co-captain DeborahAbeles smashed on RBI double off the fence in leftfield...
Abeles advanced to third on another wild pitch,Teller walked and Koppel singled to right to plateAbeles and tie the game at 3-3. McKendry thencrushed a towering single to the left-field fencethat loaded the bases. Two outs later, McKendrytrotted home on the third wild pitch of theinning...
Like so much in life, it began with sex. Alt.sex, to be precise, a Usenet newsgroup devoted to erotica. This is where the computer virus called Melissa was, in geek terminology, released "in the wild." Named after a topless dancer in Florida, where "her" alleged author once lived, the virus was unremarkable except for her speed. Experts had never seen anything spread so fast. People trusted Melissa; she arrived disguised as an e-mail from a friend or colleague. In a matter of days, she was replicating herself all over cyberspace--from Berlin to Beijing, from the U.S. Marine Corps...
...ever said that the original Whitewater mess was boring? Forget the excitement of the Monica Lewinsky scandal -- Susan McDougal's Whitewater contempt trial went on a wild roller coaster ride on Friday when, of all things, a juror brought an Arkansas criminal law book into the room where the jury was deliberating McDougal's fate. A court clerk snatched it before the jury could consult the book. The judge abruptly halted the proceedings to investigate the possibility of jury tampering, but deciding that no harm had been done he later ordered the deliberations to resume on Monday. "The strange incident...