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Catamounts goalie Mike Millham stands 6'3" tall, but the ECAC's second-rated netminder isn't accustomed to letting games slip through his legs.

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: First-Place Icemen Steamroll Vermont | 12/8/1990 | See Source »

The visitor to Pyongyang soon grows accustomed to seeing the world in a different light, as if gazing through the wrong end of a telescope. On North Korean maps, there is no Demilitarized Zone at the 38th parallel, no boundary between South and North; guidebooks, in quoting figures for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea In the Land of the Single Tune | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

First-years accustomed to their usual 8:45 wake up call rose about 15 minutes early to a chorus of chants and songs protesting the dearth of faculty in Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department. A crowd of demonstrators, many of whom had spent the night lined along the University...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Afro-Am Activists Challenge Rosovsky | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

Being now accustomed to such things as post-concert aggression, I quickly told him how much I had enjoyed the concerts and asked again for his autograph. As always, he complied, and I turned to make my exit.

Author: By Rachel S. Manalili, | Title: Remembering Leonard Bernstein | 11/1/1990 | See Source »

Even alarmists concede that newspapers will persist in some form for a long time. Says analyst John Morton of the consultants Lynch Jones & Ryan: "There is still no cheaper or more economic way to deliver a mass amount of news to a mass audience." But in a business accustomed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Getting Bad News Firsthand | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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