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...game-winner came about eight minutes later on a soft goal by Clarkson forward Matt Sayer. At 12:22, Sayer pushed thepuck across the blueline, pulled up on the rightside and took a low shot from a high angle thatsomehow slipped between Jonas's legs...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clarkson, St. Lawrence Two-Time M. Hockey | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

That is one of the questions that animates McEwan's eighth novel, Amsterdam (Doubleday; 193 pages; $21), the 1998 winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The composer in question is Clive Linley. He and his old friend Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor, meet outside a London crematorium to say goodbye to Molly Lane, a glamorous and sexually generous woman dead in her late 40s of a painfully wasting disease. Each man had been her lover in earlier days, as had many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Moral Low Ground | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Gyorffy won the high jump at 1.91 meters-a Heps meet record-and the triple jump at 12.27 meters-.48 meters better than second place. She finished third at the NCAA Championships, and Gyorffy defeated the winner-Erin Aldrich of Texas-at the Penn Relays...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: High Hopes for Indoor Track Teams | 12/3/1998 | See Source »

...Coop came out the decided winner, and a quick check reveals that little has since changed. Local booksellers might be a better option, but they say they face constraints similar to the Coop's, and that they have no incentive to take on the Coop's role...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Budgeting 101 | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

Three minutes and one generous facemask call later, Jason Hanson boomed a 42-yard game winner and I had one win under my belt, courtesy of some highly creative refereeing...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Unofficials | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

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