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Quaker sophomore Elisabeth Alexander put herteam ahead briefly with a jumper at the other end,but on the Crimson's ensuing possession, Egelhoffbarked for the ball at one o'clock, took a dishfrom Monti and flung a screaming liner through therim. After a Penn miss, Monti pushed the stake ineven further, hitting a wide open three from theright corner after Janowski astutely passed out ofa triple team in the high post...
...cliche-infested sports article might remarkthat Monti's heroics were too little, too late. AMonti jumper with the shot clock winding downbrought Harvard within three, 41-38, at the 4:11mark, but Angell put the fannies back in theirseats for good with her team's first three of thegame, from...
...time. The date was Jan. 24, 1998, three days after an atom bomb named Monica was dropped on the capital. The hosts were Al and Tipper Gore; House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt and his wife Jane were their guests. Washington was radioactive--the press was on a round-the-clock Clinton death watch--and there was private tension as well. A month before, Gephardt had delivered a scathing speech at Harvard, attacking Democrats who practice "the politics of small ideas" and replace compassion with "momentary calculation." Everyone knew whom he was talking about--and now the subject of his speech...
Betty Rataj has beaten the clock. The alarm is set for 3:30 a.m., but like a kid before Christmas, she is up and about in her red bathrobe 10 minutes early. Outside, the St. Louis suburb of University City is asleep. But on the Rataj month-at-a-glance calendar, a crisp notation--"B&E: Papal Mass"--dictates an early start. Betty, 50, comes back down the hall with a black suit on and a pin-striped, bleary-eyed corporate lawyer, her husband Ed, in tow. She glows. "I woke up smiling," says the mother of five. "I think...
...just past 1 o'clock on a Thursday morning, and the towering dominoes of Manhattan are falling past her as Mrs. Rosado's cab speeds from the northern tip of the slab all the way down to Columbus Circle. At 2 o'clock, bundled against winter, complete to her L.A. Gear sneakers, she will board a van for a five-hour ride to visit John in the Elmira Correctional Facility. Door to door, counting the visiting period and pit stops, the round-trip ordeal will take between 18 and 20 hours. Along the way, Mrs. Rosado, a diabetic, will inject...