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With five seconds on the clock, Crimson guard Jeff Sinek took a pass from teammate Tom Clarke, dribbled to the right side of the foul line and arched a graceful 15-ft. jump shot. The buzzer sounded, and...swish! Sinek had his ninth and tenth points of the season, and Harvard beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cagers Dump Engineers; Subs Strut Their Stuff | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

...used to be so simple. Winter meant Charlie Brown getting hit in the back of his smooth, round noggin with a fat snowball. Spring was Charlie Brown losing another battle with the kite-eating tree. By July, he was whiffing in the bottom of the ninth, and every autumn it was back-to-school love with the little red-haired girl...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Bo, Buns and the Vineyard: Hundreds of Ways to Keep Time | 12/9/1981 | See Source »

Harvard's power-play clicked (Michael Watson from Olson) for the ninth time on the year at 15:25 to narrow the margin to 3-1, but Davies redirected a Sinclair cross past Lau in the final minute of the stanza and the lead was back at three...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers Swallow Icemen, 5-2, at Walter Brown | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

...Steel last week announced that it was offering about $6.4 billion in cash and notes to acquire Marathon Oil, the 17th biggest American petroleum company. The deal ranks just behind last summer's successful $7.3 billion bid by Du Pont, the chemical giant, to buy Conoco, the ninth biggest American oil firm. Critics immediately began charging that U.S. Steel should be using the money for its own development. Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, said that the agreement "calls into question the seriousness of the steel industry's efforts to modernize its steelmaking facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marathon's Run | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...Cozza spoke to the press first after the game--a tradition for the winning coach--for the fifth time in six years as he savored his ninth Ivy crown in 17 seasons at Yale. And Restic, a loser in The Game for the seventh time since coming to Harvard in 1971, downplayed its importance when his turn came...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Baffles Harvard in 28-0 Debacle, Earns Ivy Title Share With Dartmouth | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

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