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Botterill sent the puck top-shelf past Northeastern goaltender Shannon Meyers, who had to make 14 saves over the final 29:53 as the Crimson sent a flurry of shots on goal in crunch time...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: OT Goal Gives W. Hockey Beanpot Opener, 7-6 | 2/3/1999 | See Source »

...homework crunch is heard loudest in the country's better middle-class school districts, where parents push their kids hard and demand that teachers deliver enough academic rigor to get students into top secondary schools and colleges. Now there's a blowback: the sheer quantity of nightly homework and the difficulty of the assignments can turn ordinary weeknights into four-hour library-research excursions, leave kids in tears and parents with migraines, and generally transform the placid refuge of home life into a tense war zone. "The atmosphere in the house gets very frustrated," says Lynne O'Callaghan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Several outages and slow-downs in Harvard's central FAS Unix system this weekend plagued students who could not access their accounts, preventing them from sending and receiving e-mail and working on assignments in this, the middle of the reading period crunch...

Author: By Daniel A. Zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Server Outage Delays Coursework, E-mail | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

However, the procrastinator can take the crunch-time of exams as a blessing in disguise and amend her behavior to minimize procrastination and hit that unopened Core textbook. It will be difficult; old habits (especially ones with the short-term thrill that procrastination possesses) die hard. But if sufficiently motivated, the procrastinator can suck it up and take the plunge this reading period (all those exams and papers will drive an unproductive soul to desperate measures) and go up against the mother of GW haunts: Cabot library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Town PAM WASSERSTEIN | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...JOSE, Calif.--When crunch time came for the Harvard men's basketball team at the Cable Car Classic, the Crimson looked to its perimeter players to make the plays down the stretch...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, | Title: Raiders Of the Lost Arc | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

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