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According to the 1990 Census figures, 601,643 people live in the eighth district...
Francisco's heroics enabled Harvard to gain a tie with St. Lawrence for the eighth and final playoff spot. As the Crimson heads into its final two games, against Princeton and Yale this weekend, the task ahead may seem difficult. Making it less imposing, however, is the presence of a freshman whose stellar performance last weekend can only portend even better things to come...
...past 50 years, only four men have represented Massachusetts' eighth congressional district, the scraggly block of land that winds its way through the working class, upper class and middle class neighborhoods of Boston and its suburbs...
Coss, who knew poverty firsthand as a child, is no stranger to financial setbacks. He quit school following eighth grade and failed as a car dealer before pulling himself out of bankruptcy and scraping together the funds to found Green Tree. Today he remains firmly in charge, particularly after the resignation of Green Tree president Robert Potts, who quit in December amid the furor over the income revisions. Not much given to displays of wealth, Coss maintains a vacation house in Flagstaff, Ariz., and likes to buy up land near his hometown of Miller...
...person ever to try that jump in competition, and by week's end he had climbed from 11th to 7th place. Yagudin, whose coach said he was running a high fever, placed fifth at Nagano; only 17, he is already a force to contend with. China's Guo Zhengxin, eighth, also seems a potential star. Guo shot for two quadruples in the finals last week and landed one of them impressively...