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...second half Tinsley seemed to decide that this game was worth her time. She began driving into the Harvard zone, hitting pull-up jumpers or threading wrap-around assists to breaking teammates. The 5'6 senior guard started crashing the boards, undaunted by Harvard's towering frontcourt...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Playin' in a Winter Woeful-land | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...friends and relatives but also to those less fortunate. Many churches and charities put up "angel trees," where a child can donate a gift earmarked for a specific needy kid. Your child will have good ideas about what a kid his age would want; let him choose and wrap a gift to donate. In lieu of a teacher gift, write your teacher an appreciative note and let him know that you have donated a book to a local shelter or Toys for Tots in his honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy a Buffalo! | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...leader and that's one thing we learn in training. Your femur is this bone and it's surrounded by thick muscles. Not only do you have to wrap it up, you have to pull the bone to prevent it from cutting the femoral artery. You need to wrap it up in 15 minutes or you could...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter: What Are Your Health Concerns? | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Back-in-the-day, as one is wont to say, we had CB jackets with Freaky Freazies inside. No need for smart wool jackets or canvas my-first-briefcases. We'd wrap a sheet of strawberry Fruit Roll Up around our index finger, then lick. Eeew. Anna stuck a tic tac up her nose. (The school nurse used tweezers to dislodge the one-calorie mint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

Though his ability to wrap his voice around a romantic lyric arguably ranked him near Elvis, Sinatra and Lady Day, the pop balladeer (and jazz pianist) Nat King Cole is unfortunately perhaps best remembered today as Natalie's dad. Epstein's insightful new book--best read while listening to Cole's rereleased album The Christmas Song--should remedy things. The biographer sometimes digs too deep into esoterica, spending pages analyzing the lyrics of Straighten Up and Fly Right, for example. But when he recounts the singer's personal struggles, including a shocking 1956 onstage kidnapping attempt by Alabama racists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nat King Cole | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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