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...women's soccer team finds offense in a closet and wears it to Ohiri Field. Harvard knocks off Princeton, 2-0. Pinezich and Biggs get the Crimson goals. The Crimson writes: "The drought is over." And it wasn't even raining...
...game business, yesterday's craze is today's closet stuffer. And no company knows that better than Coleco. Its cuddly Cabbage Patch Kids were once every small child's dream, but sales peaked in 1985 and have been falling ever since. In 1986 Coleco made a seemingly shrewd move in buying the company that held the license to the popular Trivial Pursuit game, but soon yuppies began to grow tired of asking one another questions like "Who played the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion...
Politicians from Governor John Sununu on down have lined up to denounce the manual and block its distribution. Says Strafford County Commissioner Paul Dumont: "We let those guys out of the closet ten years ago. I think we should put them back in." He and his fellow commissioners voted to freeze spending for the county's Prenatal Family Planning Clinic, which paid for the development of the manual during three years of work by community groups, schools and youth organizations...
...general-release movies. Another titled woman (Jacqueline Pearce) will rise naked from her bath to lead her assembled guests -- of both sexes -- in a genial discussion of who will accompany her to bed. A rancher (the late Trevor Howard, in his last role) has cut a peephole in his closet so he can spy on women using his guest bathroom. While Broughton is awaiting trial for murder, this same fellow visits him bearing a fine gift box of chocolates in which he has thoughtfully tucked a drug-filled syringe...
...groups, across professions and around the country. "These are young women, older women; many are professional, but some are housewives," says Barbara Mueller, vice president of the Illinois State Rifle Association. "They don't have a cigarette dangling from the corner of their mouth, and they're not closet commandos." Though more women are appearing at shooting ranges and gun clubs, the sporting aspect is not really the issue. The vast majority who are buying guns -- about 75%, by most estimates -- are doing so to protect their homes and themselves...