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...Democrats spend the next four years training their supporters how to punch a ballot, they may have less trouble in 2004." CALVIN WHEELER Auburn, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 2000 | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

This is the guy who embarrassed Bill Gates on the stand. The guy who wrestled $1.17 billion from drug companies for fixing vitamin prices, who defeated the nation's biggest auction houses and now represents everyone from Calvin Klein to Napster. Yeah, the guy in the rumpled blue suit and black sneakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAWYER WHO WOULD SAVE GORE: Master of the Impossible | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...About three or four days before the election, the reports were beginning to get very positive, upbeat; then along comes the Kennebunkport incident with John Newcombe. I stayed awake all night and the next day. Barbara and I had totally forgotten about it. Calvin, the police officer, came to our house and said, 'George, I got to take you in.' I don't know what really happened that night. George was with John Newcombe, a black-belt beer drinker. He was arrested for driving too slow. He accepted his responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: A Dad Reflects On His Family | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...legendary quarterback, Brian Dowling, had never lost a football game in which he started. Today Dowling is best known as the rabidly Republican comic strip character BD, in Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. Trudeau was an undergraduate at Yale at that time. The Yale football team was also lead by Calvin Hill, who later helped the Dallas Cowboys to a Super Bowl victory, and whose son Grant Hill is now a star NBA basketball player...

Author: By John F. Ince, | Title: The Game and The Race | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...suddenly, the unthinkable happened. Harvard cornerback Rick Frisbie '71 tackled Calvin Hill with such jarring force that Hill fumbled. Harvard took over, still trailing by 16 points. Harvard coach John Yovison astounded the fans with a daring decision--he inserted third-string quarterback Frank Champi '70 into perhaps the most most high-pressure situation in Ivy League sports history. The decision proved not only bold, but prescient. Champi, though he had played but a few minutes in his entire Harvard career up to that point, methodically picked apart the Yale defense and reached the endzone with a touchdown toss. Forty...

Author: By John F. Ince, | Title: The Game and The Race | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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