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Restic's Multiflex and Kwiatkowski's Spread-T Flex share similar philosophies, both drawing heavily upon the infamous Delaware Wing-T offense. Both of them boast successful track records. Restic is 112-89-6 in 22 years of coaching. Kwiatkowski is 71-51 in 12 years at the helm...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ivy's Offensive Innovator | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

NEVER SHY ABOUT VOICING HIS intentions, Prince gets right to the point in the opening seconds of his new album, (logo symbol): "My name is Prince/ And < I am funky/ I am Prince/ The one and only." It's no idle boast. The record, his first since signing an unprecedented $100 million deal with Warner Records earlier this year, aims -- and succeeds -- at nothing less than reasserting his rightful place in the pop pantheon. Effortlessly inventive and seething with melodic and rhythmic vitality, this collection of raunchy rap riffs, detonating dance rhythms and silky soul ballads is Prince's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rap, Crackle And Pop | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Many of Clinton's "new jobs" are nothing to boast about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Real people. Like the people of Cognac, where signs in five languages welcome visitors to "the City at the Heart of the World." It is no idle boast. Cognac (pop. 20,000) exports 95% of its brandy, $2 billion worth a year, west to musty men's clubs of Manhattan, and east to Japan, where businessmen buy it packaged in Baccarat crystal at $1,000 a bottle. The French drink less and less cognac. "We've been switching to whiskey ever since the Americans liberated us in '44," says Jean-Luc Lebuy, a Remy Martin executive. He voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Hands Of The People | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

Fields like this lie in Forks, a small Washington logging town outside of Olympic National Park that is the westernmost incorporated city in the contiguous U.S. People in Forks boast that they reside in the timber capital of the world and any visitor can get the message loud and clear without even talking to the locals...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: The Killing Fields | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

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