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...definitely, without a doubt, the main cog for us this season," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "He's our best player, our best worker, our best student, and one of our best all-around kids. You name...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Meet Tyler Rullman A.K.A. The Man | 12/1/1992 | See Source »

...unique thing about Tyler is that he possesses extraordinary basketball instincts, but he does it in an unassuming way," Sullivan said. "He's definitely the main cog on our team, our best player, but he's a shy, introverted type of guy who works harder than anybody else on the team. That's rare these days...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Meet Tyler Rullman A.K.A. The Man | 12/1/1992 | See Source »

MORAL VALUES, of course, need not be religious values. We can avoid making the individual person into a mere cog in the bureaucratic or economic machine by valuing the person for the person, as a Kantian end, not a utilitarian means. More and more often, however, this valuation is disappearing from our society...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford, | Title: Harvard 'Caring' Destroys Personal Worth | 1/22/1992 | See Source »

Though the senior defender has not garnered the attention many of her fellow teammates have, Lawler has been an integral cog in Harvard's field hockey machine for the last three years...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: The Field Hockey Team's Sweeping Sensation | 12/17/1991 | See Source »

...does have its inspiring moments. Steve Dunleavy, the Outback Geraldo Rivera, who cut his journalistic teeth at Rupert Murdoch's sensationalist New York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press What's in a Middle Name? | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

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