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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling has been in the air for a while [along with] the motivation," he said. "We weren't sure if this would continue after today, but I think now that it'll definitely continue...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Blacks, Jews Discuss Identities | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...want Vivaldi or Wagner or Lloyd Webber, go figure skating. Snowboarding's sound tracks are different. Last week at the Olympic snowboard park, as riders launched into the air like skateboarders in the 120-m halfpipe course, Pearl Jam and Metallica ruled. Several riders chose as their personal song the rap group Cypress Hill's Hits from the Bong. That was appropriate. The International Olympic Committee had been hoping to create a buzz and draw in a generation of sports fans used to pierced noses when it added snowboarding as a full-medal sport to the Nagano Games. And buzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...failed pot tests aside, many snowboarders did come, and those who earned some hardware were happy to keep it. As gallons of freezing rain pelted spectators, riders and the media, the halfpipe (snowboarding's freestyle discipline) managed to go off without incident, as riders hurled themselves into the air before judges and the entire world. "Sticking" (landing) such "sick" (impressive) maneuvers as caballerials (backward 360[degree] rotations), McTwists (inverted 540[degree] spins) and Haakonsen's patented move, the Haakon flip (a 540[degree] with a flip), snowboarders showed everyone that rebels can be athletes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snowboard: Olympics: Dazed And Confused | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

Every time I get closer to admiring the achievements of Clinton, he does something to foul the air. With this latest charge of a sexual liaison, I'm wondering why I voted for him twice. Here is a skilled player who was an easy catch away from certain greatness. Now he has dropped the ball. For him there will be no place on Mount Rushmore. TED RASHKOW Skokie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 23, 1998 | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...lawyer had mysteriously reappeared on Meet the Press and Face the Nation -- not to praise his client, but to bury her in a pile of legal bills. ?I am not being paid appropriately,? Ginsburg complained. ?Frankly, it?s difficult just to pay the costs that have been incurred in air fares, investigatory efforts and whatnot, without some assistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check, Please | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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