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Brown was the team's chief nemesis. After the Crimson beat the Bears last season for the first time in 15 years, Brown retaliated with three wins this season to wrest away the league title. Each game was close--the scores were 15-7, 15-9 and 11-9, respectively--but each was nonetheless a loss...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Polomen Fail To Win "Big Games" | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...equality, Radcliffe could preserve the resources that are, indeed, used. Some of Schlesinger Library's outstanding collection might, of course, need to be trashed to make room for the complete William F. Buckley papers and all of the those Rush Limbaugh transcripts, but so be it. Conservatives could even wrest the Agassiz. Theatre from the drama club to stage wistful re-enactments of the Nixon years...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: The Answers We've Been Waiting For | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

...stations to replace them. The options aren't very appealing. In each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current ABC or NBC affiliate. But that would probably trigger a bidding war that could wind up costing the network plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murdoch's Biggest Score | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Yeltsin gambles that he can wrest power from his rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

Duong Thu Huong presents an indelible portrait of three northern Vietnamese women and the sacrifices men and communist society wrest from them. The main characters of Paradise represent real women in Vietnam--not the extremes portrayed by the passive Phuong of Graham Greene's The Quiet American nor the whores of Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal lacket." Despite their ordinary occupations and status as second-class citizens, though, the women of Paradise are nothing short of extraordinary...

Author: By Amy THANH Nguyen, | Title: Paradise of the Blind: Surviving the Inner War | 5/14/1993 | See Source »

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