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...call, a bump," Harvard coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "The refereeing was inconsistent...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, | Title: W. Cagers Fall to Providence | 12/7/1995 | See Source »

...groups such as CityTeam would "replicate" by the thousands across America. They would do so on a tremendous wave of charitable giving that some conservatives appear to believe will occur almost spontaneously in response to the cutbacks. Leslie Lenkowsky, head of the Hudson Institute think tank, notes a bump in giving during the budget-cutting Reagan years and suggests that "with a return to the economic and tax climate of the 1980s...a repeat performance is not inconceivable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN CHARITY FILL THE GAP? | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

After cleverly engineering a string of 34 straw-poll victories throughout this year, Gramm hit a speed bump in Florida last Saturday at the single such contest he couldn't rig. His second-place showing (seven points behind Dole and only three ahead of Lamar Alexander) failed to meet his own hyped expectations and dents his overall strategy, which presumes his winning handily across the South. Now a Connally-size meltdown, while unlikely, cannot be ruled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GRAMMSTANDER: Phil Gramm | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...seniors, we are being forced to think about what the future holds for us out there in "the real world." When we bump into friends in the Yard or in the dining hall, we have a new question to ask each other: "So, what will you be up to next year?" The prospect of leaving the ivory tower and finding our way in the world outside is in many ways a daunting one. For those seniors without concrete plans for the future, it can be an especially frightening prospect...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The End Is Near | 11/14/1995 | See Source »

...singes the audience with I Do What I Can (with What I Got), a torchy tune about the advantages and imperatives of being a knockout babe. Johnson's rendition, in the Larry Grossman musical Paper Moon, is a KO as well; she coos, she beguiles, she does everything but bump it with a trumpet. It's the sort of turn to persuade even a show-biz skeptic that, yes, the Broadway musical is alive and well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: BROADWAY'S NEW BABIES | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

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