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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Making history in her first Harvard track meet ever, 5'9" freshman Dora Gyorffy, a Hungary native, broke three records in the high jump and the triple jump at the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Saturday as the varsity women cruised to a 91-27 win over Boston College...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jumper Shatters Two Marks | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

Last week Feaster broke Harvard's all-time scoring record while averaging 29 points and 12.5 rebounds, yet the Ivy League did not name her its Player of the Week as it had done seven days earlier. Yesterday, however, the League had no choice but to bestow the honor on Feaster for the second time in three weeks...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Superwoman | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

Freshman Dora Gyorffy, in her first collegiate meet, broke two Harvard records. The high jump was ruled by Gyorffy when she skied two inches past the Crimson record...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Young Track Star Shatters Records | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

...jump was just the start. Gyorffy then moved on to the triple jump where she broke another Harvard record after only one jump...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Young Track Star Shatters Records | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

Harry Connick Jr. has long viewed himself as something of a Sinatra for the '90s. Although he broke into jazz a decade ago as a solo pianist influenced by Bud Powell and Art Tatum, his career veered sharply toward big-band and string-arranged music after his 1989 sound track, When Harry Met Sally, went multi-platinum. When his version of the classic It Had to Be You--with Connick singing--became a hit, he began moving his repertoire closer toward pop, writing, as he did on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light, jaunty big-band tunes that echoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: HARRY CONNICK: FRANKLY NOT | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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