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...puddles of muddy water that littered Soldiers Field yesterday didn't bother the Harvard softball team. But those other Brown things--the ones that wielded bats and circled bases--gave the Crimson fits the entire afternoon...

Author: By Henry Hudepohl, | Title: Brown Trips Batswomen Twice, 3-1, 7-2 | 5/2/1990 | See Source »

...possible heroine and role model, Mileva Maric, was lost. Then the agent of that loss was turned around and used as a club against them. Einstein's legacy was style as much as substance. The absentminded, frizzed-out dreamer has become the archetype of male genius. "Don't bother Daddy. He's busy working on the space-time continuum." Substitute "novel," "fast ball" or "takeover plan" for the end of that statement, and you have the image of the lone genius. Genius needs a little slack; we all want to be Einstein. In Western civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Einstein In Love | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

FORGET about the statue of John Harvard. Don't bother taking pictures of Memorial Church. That stuff is for tourists. If you are serious about this school, you should learn about the real Harvard. And you'll find none of the must-see sights in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Frosh Eating Tour | 4/19/1990 | See Source »

Amiable and avuncular as ever, the former President, now 79, emerged from retirement to reprise his role as the chief of state who grasped the big picture but did not bother with the little one. During eight hours of videotaped testimony in a Los Angeles courtroom on Feb. 16 and 17 (a 293-page transcript was released last week), Reagan occasionally bantered with the Iran-contra special prosecutor and with lawyers for former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who faces trial on five counts of obstructing a congressional investigation and making false statements to Congress. He gave no sign that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ex, Lies and Videotape: Confused by Iran-contra? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...bother with those soldiers. They don't even do their own laundry, and they always wear the same colors. I've known they were scum ever since my brother's G.I. Joe used to kill my Barbies...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Please Don't Ask Beth | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

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