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...tournament featured over 120 players from 15 schools. While eight Harvard players competed, not all of the top Crimson players were represented. Co-captain John Doran, Green's first cousin and the team's top player, stayed back, as did junior Andrew Styperek, presumably to warm up for the next two weeks...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lee, Choo Make Finals in M. Tennis Tourney | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...recalled that my father had been afflicted by this strange ailment, but I knew little about shingles until I did some digging. I learned that shingles could be thought of as the revenge of the chicken pox, or of varicella-zoster, the virus behind this childhood disease. A close cousin of herpes simplex, which causes cold sores, varicella-zoster can be beaten back by the immune system but never eradicated. Like a bandit pursued by a posse, it retreats to a safe haven--bundles of nerve cells in the spinal cord or cranium. There varicella-zoster lies dormant, usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealthy Virus | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...will be asked repeatedly about your divorce. You will spend hours trying to figure out the difference between a first cousin once removed and a second cousin. You will feign interest in opera, NASCAR and gun collecting. You will, in all probability, have a wonderful time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reunion Rules | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...fabulous, I couldn't believe we were related. (Later I learned we weren't.) Best of all, I found that some of my most obvious flaws, like my Groucho Marx eyebrows and perennial bad attitude, clearly are genetic. I shared this observation with a similarly afflicted cousin, and we both admitted that we felt relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reunion Rules | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

DIED. ANTHONY RADZIWILL, 40, Emmy-winning TV producer and only son of Lee Radziwill Ross, Jackie Kennedy Onassis' sister; of cancer; in New York City. He and cousin John Kennedy Jr. were each best man at the other's wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 23, 1999 | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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