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Perhaps the most impressive statistic regarding the Crimson's recent success on the ice is that Harvard has scored the first goal in each of its last 16 games, a string which dates back to the March 7 victory over Colgate in the ECAC quarter-finals...
...Judges (now 2-4) were not able to string together consecutive baskets until Rob Toomey (nine points) and Derek Oliver (15 points, six rebounds) converted back-to-back hoops with just over five minutes remaining in the first half...
Some U.S. officials believe the arms-sale profits were handled by the men who had helped North supply the contras over the past two years. One possibility is that the funds were used to finance the string of airlifts that have delivered supplies to the rebels during the past few months. Those flights received unwanted publicity two months ago, when a C-123K air-transport plane was shot down over southern Nicaragua and an American crew member, Eugene Hasenfus, was captured and tried by the Sandinistas. But most of the supplies, according to a knowledgeable source, consisted of boots, clothing...
...bars from Vancouver to San Diego. Sometimes parents would come by to check out how the boys were doing. "My father and (Bass Player) Richard Cousins' mom are loud people," Cray says fondly. "You can hear them in the audience: 'Do it, son! Play that guitar! Pop a string! I'll buy you another...
...least a dozen Mob leaders from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Kansas City have been put in prison since last January. Federal and state investigators are confident that the string of convictions will break down the discipline that the Mafia's commission had enforced. Created in the 1930s after a particularly bloody period of gang warfare, the commission divides turf among families, settles disputes and sanctions the slayings of those who break the rules. It now has several vacancies that may not be easy to fill. "The machinery to resolve those disputes has been wiped out," contends Ronald Goldstock, head...