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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women's team was lead by the individual performance of sophomore Senta Burton and senior Margaret Schotte, who finished with times of 18:48 and 18:57, respectively. Just 1:08 off the pace, Burton placed 24th while Schotte finished 28th...

Author: By Brian C. Clay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: C. Country Disappoints At Heps | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Junior Kate Moynihan has also been bothered by a knee injury. However, Schotte says that sophomore Senta Burton is coming off a strong season and that sophomore Mary Unsworth "is focused now and in fantastic shape." Freshman Erin Leonard "has been running really well and has had a really strong season...

Author: By Haley Steele, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cross-Country Teams Try to Finish Strong at Heps | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...wounded are real, borrowed from history (the two are passengers on H.M.S. Java when the U.S.S. Constitution, now a tourist attraction in Boston Harbor, defeats the British ship off Brazil in his sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Square-Rigged Saga | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...John A. Burton '01 is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House. He is serving his second term as treasurer of the Undergraduate Council...

Author: By John A. Burton, | Title: Facing the Council's Failures | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

Even without any money on the table, Republican members Helen Chenoweth, Dan Burton and Henry Hyde have already been singed. So far, Flynt says he has got more than 2,000 calls: a few were cranks, 85% were laudatory, some were offers to sweeten the pot, and about 300 were calls from women (and a few men) with sorry tales to tell. Flynt says three editors spent last week winnowing those down to about "12 officials with pasts that look very promising and with concrete evidence to back them up." He relishes "repeat offenders" but is particularly excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Proposal | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

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