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Harvard managed just eight shots over the entire game for a frightening efficiency rate of 50 percent. In the first half, the Crimson took four shots, scored two goals and was awarded a penalty stroke on the third shot...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: F. Hockey Finishes Second With Win | 11/3/1993 | See Source »

This year's statistics certainly confirm that point with four goals coming straight off penalty corners, one off a direct penalty stroke, and one during the scramble after a penalty corner...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: More Than Just a Leader on the Field | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

...matter what the Crimson did, the Minutemen attackers stayed one stroke ahead of their counterparts, a fact which doomed the home team...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Polomen Get Short End of Pool, 19-16 | 10/9/1993 | See Source »

...Classics with Simon Rattle + conducting the London Philharmonic. It's a vibrant recording in its own right, but the miming shows -- and jars with the quasi-naturalistic style of Nunn's staging. And because the music seems once removed, the production often lacks the one quality that every directorial stroke was intended to achieve: immediacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conjuring Up Catfish Row | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...year ago, before Diller hooked up with Malone at QVC, the cultural elite considered shopping by TV a joke, unworthy of serious interest. But Diller's involvement in one stroke transformed home shopping's image from pathetic trailer-park quasi-entertainment to visionary locomotive into the future. Yet he must have realized the frenzied run-up of his stock wouldn't continue indefinitely, and he certainly knows, according to a friend, that without a real Hollywood movie studio he cannot be a full-fledged member of Hollywood royalty. Analysts can talk about corporate fit and maximizing shareholder assets all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator Ego Is of Paramount Importance | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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