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Those students who choose to play this somewhat chaotic sport get a bonus--they play both a fall and a spring season. And for the Harvard women's rugby team, the spring is looking mighty promising...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: W. Ruggers Are Out to Wreak Havoc | 3/12/1991 | See Source »

BUSH'S COMMITMENT to "resist aggression" via U.N. resolutions smacks of Kennan's warning against "the belief that it should be possible to suppress the chaotic and dangerous aspirations of governments in the international field by the acceptance of some system of legal rules and restraints...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: A Recipe For Disaster | 2/27/1991 | See Source »

...board is divided as to whether Brennan should join their ranks; at least 4 of the 13 directors are said to be leaning toward new management. Admits a Brennan confidant: "We're in serious trouble. We needed to make some radical decisions that haven't been made. It's chaotic. We don't know what's going to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Sam Stuns Goliath | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...commemorate Mozart's fondness for planning carom shots while he composed music, and vice versa. Japanese entrepreneurs have already started selling Mozart dolls, Mozart watches, even Mozart sake manufactured to the strains of Mozart's music. "Mozart is suitable because it is gentle and smooth, not peculiar or chaotic," says the distiller. Mozart tours are selling well, and France is operating a Mozart train to several cities that the composer visited. The Austrians have put Mozart's picture on their 5,000 schilling note ($500), which will probably be just about enough to buy a small cup of coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hats Off to A Genius! | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...world goes into chaotic motion, becomes a verb and not a collection of nouns. Reality blurs. Generals and Presidents need a clear eye for the truth. But the home front and the troops in the line are sustained less by truth than by emotion (propaganda, fang baring, plumage display) and their own myth. Saddam Hussein knows this and makes a fairly gaudy display of mystique. The leaders of the coalition arrayed against Saddam have their idealism and materialism in uneasy alignment, pretty much without illusions. The trouble is that they do not always trust their own people with the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog Of War | 2/4/1991 | See Source »

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