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...gives the Crimson a three-game losing streak, its longest of the season. The team defeated Vermont 8-7 on Sunday in its final game of the weekend...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Softballers Sweep Crusaders | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...make sure to change my password and on myown computer I have a password," says Aaron B.Brown '97. "The longest I've kept my password istwo weeks. Sometimes I alternate betweenpasswords...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Fake E-Mail, Other Abuses Plague 'Net | 4/6/1994 | See Source »

...chopper. "Super six-one is going down," he yelled into his headset, "Six-one is going in." Those would be his last words. The crash of Wolcott's Black Hawk transformed what had been planned as a textbook operation to decapitate Somalia's most powerful warlord into the longest sustained fire fight American soldiers have endured since the Vietnam War. The human costs of that raid, which took the life of 18 Americans and wounded more than 75 others, altered the very nature of the U.S. peacekeeping mission in Somalia, shocking the American public and forcing from the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid Disaster, Amazing Valor | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

That blunt, five-word concession statement rang down the curtain last week on one of the hardest-fought and longest-running takeover sagas in American corporate history. It came after Viacom Inc., best known for its ownership of MTV, won an overwhelming victory in the epic five-month battle for control of Paramount Communications, garnering more than 90% of Paramount shares soon after the polls closed in the proxy contest. In doing so, Viacom takes home some of the crown jewels of entertainment, including the Paramount film and television studios and a library of 890 movies ranging from Wayne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deal That Forced Diller to Fold | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

Shear Madness has been running continuously for ten years in Boston and has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running non-musical play in the country). It is playing simultaneously in six other American cities not to mention Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, Budapest and Melbourne. The play relies on two gimmicks: setting the action in the city and year in which it is playing and populating it with local caricatures and spontaneous humor. These ideas keep the ten-year-old act from becoming dated, as recent events are constantly mentioned--everyone from Nancy Kerrigan...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: Shear Madness Not Mad Enough | 2/17/1994 | See Source »

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