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...what handicappers call a "deep closer"--a horse that breaks slowly from the gate and sits at the back of the pack for three-quarters of the race, then makes its move over the last 200 yards. When a deep closer wins, it's like a bottom-of-the-ninth home run or a buzzer-beater--everyone knows it can happen, but no one thinks today will be the day. Unshaded rallied around the last turn and slaughtered the field down the stretch, winning by a good 10 lengths. As he pulled away and I stood shouting with pure...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Lucky Strikes and Ascot Gavottes | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...total marks a new record number of College applicants--the ninth such record in ten years...

Author: By Michael L. Shenkman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Receives Record Number of Applicants | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

HORTON HEARS A HOOCHIE Tupac Shakur and Dr. Seuss are the kings of postmortem product. Seuss's ninth posthumous book shipped last week; Shakur is on his fifth beyond-the-grave album. How do they stack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cat Raps | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

Despite the vastly improved effort, the losses sink the Crimson to ninth place in the conference, with a .412 winning percentage. This sets up a critical road trip to Princeton and Yale next weekend...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Drops a Pair to Clarkson, St. Lawrence | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

Harvard was much improved, from the first position all the way down to the ninth...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Squash Falls Short of Title Hopes, Finishes Fourth | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

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