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Harvard had been in the driver's seat, but it let the Ivy crown slip away--at least for one night. The team would have to be content with second place, sitting a single but distant game behind the Big Green with just two league contests remaining...
...close now to let it slip away again," said Co-Captain Trisha Brown...
...countless terrorist attacks. But when the Israelis ordered passengers and crew to disembark from the commandeered craft, they discovered only a group of Syrian and Lebanese officials aboard. In what appeared to be a notable failure of Israel's highly vaunted intelligence services, the big fish had managed to slip away. After holding the plane for four hours, the Israelis allowed it to resume its flight to Damascus...
...these dual efforts of creating studentinterest and getting internship opportunitiesproceeded, the committee resolved to wait toevaluate both student and institutional responseuntil March, when Steiner would have returned froma fact-finding tour of South Africa. But anorganizational slip-up side tracked the program...
...CURRENT STATE of affairs reminds one of nothing so much as the Red Sox saga of a decade ago. In 1975, the Sox surprised the nation by fighting their way to the World Series, where Boston let slip away the most dramatic Series in the history of the game...