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...huge win for us," said co-captain Tara LaSovage. "We needed a confidence-booster, something to show that we are doing things right. Winning our first Ivy game was huge...
...That's not the kind of results you can take to your boss and ask for more money," says TIME's Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "It wasn't even hi-tech failures, but rudimentary stuff -- welding, guidance systems, booster rockets. You want failures you can learn from...
...City comedy club Comic Strip Live. Owner Richard Tienken says Rock's act was raw at first: hooker tells man she'll do anything for $300. Man answers, Paint my house, b_____! But then, hanging around the club, Rock began to see comics like Eddie Murphy (an early Rock booster) and George Carlin at work. Rock's own act got smarter, bolder, and in 1990 he landed a job on Saturday Night Live. "At the time that Chris was coming up, the Def Comedy Jam style became the dominant African-American style of comedy," says SNL executive producer Lorne Michaels...
...said Hubble was deployed by a robot arm and stayed in a low orbit, whereas AFAX will use booster rockets to leave earth's orbit for its higher, elliptical orbit...
...very embarrassing. Majority Leader Dick Armey was on his way to the House when a staffer handed him an AP story declaring that "Bob Hope, the master of the one-liners and tireless morale-booster for servicemen from World War II to the Gulf War, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...