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Except for the game's first 20 minutes and a five-minute span in the second half, Harvard played a pretty good game. But the Crimson's inconsistency turned out to be its demise...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Ivy Foes Top W. Lacrosse | 4/1/1997 | See Source »

Europe looked to its southeast last week to find civilization vanishing down a sinkhole. Perennially underprivileged Albania suddenly was no longer an organized society but a state of chaos. In the span of one week, what had begun as spontaneous revolts in a few southern cities turned all of the country into a Mad Max movie: children brandishing grenades and automatic rifles; wholesale looting; and frenetic, random gunfire--an utter collapse of civil authority. Foreign nationals were fleeing the country, many by helicopter airlift. Small, sun-washed Albania had become the state of Anarchia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO LAW OR ORDER IN THE LAND | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...what was perhaps a microcosm of Harvard's offense up to then, Hren was finally able to get the ball past Kathpal on her second free position shot in a thirty-second span...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Women's Lacrosse Squeaks Past Terriers, 10-8 | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

...least Carville did. But that is probably not what prompted the worker to become so interested in these Washington players. More likely it was his having seen their lovely mugs on TV: Carville hawking his book on Letterman, McCurry explaining away the President's foibles on C-Span...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: K-School Couch Potatoes | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson came out strong in the second half, scoring two goals in a two-minute span to gain a 6-3 advantage...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Lacrosse Throttles Boston College in Opener, 7-3 | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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