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Just two years ago, the team experienced what might rank as its greatest season ever. It went 13-3-2, breezed to the league title and basically established the Crimson as a legitimate contender in national field hockey circles. Coming after a 10-6-0 season in 1989 and an...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Hard-Luck F. Hockey Lives in Past's Shadow | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Epps, who has seen five deans of the college come and go during his tenure, was a leading contender both in 1985, When Jewett was given the job, and in 1976.

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Fitzsimmons Opts Out of Dean Race | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Barry Diller, QVC Network chairman and a failed contender for Paramount. Starting up Q2, a second, allegedly hipper shopping channel aimed at Generation X consumers who are presumably uninterested in cubic zirconium. Reported to be planning a takeover run at Time Warner, but denies these rumors as "silly nonsense."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are They Better Off Now Than They Were Four Months Ago? An Unofficial Paramount-Viacom-QVC Takeover Deal of the '90s Alumni Bulletin | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

What any good executive can expect is that success breeds imitation. Where Disney and Warner go, competitors will follow. Sony, which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Up Doc? Retail! | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

His welcoming ceremony for the new contender, however, turned into a melee, and the boy spent the next few weeks under the guard of 300 monks and 400 combat-ready Europeans from a militant Buddhist school run by a Danish ex- boxer. Meanwhile, each side has hinted darkly that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of the Future Buddhas | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

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