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...shootout, each team had five penalty strokes to score as many goals as they could. Huskies' senior defender Hilary McHugh, who leads the team with 13 goals, sealed the victory for Northeastern by scoring their fifth goal in the shootout after Crimson co-captain Tara LaSovage converted Harvard's fourth penalty stroke on the Crimson's last shot...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Drops Nailbiter to N'Eastern | 10/29/1998 | See Source »

...provide Durang with endless amounts of comic fuel. Karen MacDonald (playing Margaret Brennan, Bette's mother) stomps across the stage as a wildly exaggerated version of an over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In `Bette and Boo,' Everything's Relative | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson jumped out to about a 33 stroke-per-minute base and maintained its place in the stagger throughout...

Author: By Ron Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Heavy Crew Places Seventh | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...starting line, the Crimson jumped out to a fast 38 strokes-per-minute pace and was able to maintain a steady 34-stroke pace throughout...

Author: By Ron Romero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Heavy Crew Places Seventh | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

After Fahd's 1995 stroke, the King designated Abdullah as regent, then quickly took back his authority. But while the ailing Fahd officially remains monarch and continues to chair Cabinet meetings when his spirits are up, Abdullah is now running the country's day-to-day affairs, and his succession is unchallenged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saudi Arabia | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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