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...Throughout the game, the defense was just barely holding the fort," Kalil said. "We barely touched the ball in overtime, but in the last couple of minutes we seemed to calm down and we were lucky enough to capitalize on our only opportunity...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Field Hockey Ruins Brown's Perfect Bid | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...occasional scam artist. Most recently, shady sales brokers have been preying on would-be sellers, charging up-front fees of $500 or demanding a 30% to 40% commission. Stewart and Peggy Spangler of Pawleys Island, S.C., have already spent more than $800 trying to sell their property near Fort Lauderdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Time-Shares Worth It? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...adventure of it, but also because I want some of what my father and my uncle and my boss and Bob Dole get to look back on when they're 64: military days. I'm going to boot camp at the same spot where my dad went less willingly: Fort Jackson, in South Carolina. I hear the whole place is built on sand. Dad, who shares absolutely none of my excitement about this, has a story about a fellow grunt who thought he was Napoleon, was always standing on a hill, surveying his men, when everybody else was running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's in the Army Now. Well, Almost... | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...they are friends again. They have bonded over mutual horror at the high-profile violence of the past year, beginning with the Shepard murder and culminating in September, when seven Christian young people were murdered at a Baptist church in Fort Worth, Texas. "Columbine, Paducah, the Gaithers, the Shepards, we don't like any of that," Falwell told TIME. It sounds a little odd to compare school shootings in Colorado and Kentucky with anti-gay slayings, but over the past few years, evangelical Christians have begun to see themselves as victims, just as many gays do. Conservative Christians have lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An End to the Hatred | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...flank? Well, if you believe the likes of Pat Buchanan, Washington is leaving the door wide open to the People?s Liberation Army on Monday, when it gives Panama the keys to the last U.S. military bases in the Canal Zone. The handover of Howard Air Force Base and Fort Kirby clears the way for the transfer of the canal to Panama by the end of this year. But that has some U.S. hawks worried. Both Buchanan and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott have cited a Chinese threat in the isthmus, based on the fact that the company contracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Sees Red in Panama | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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