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...Harvard Men's Swim team entered its meet against Purdue knowing the deck was stacked against...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Purdue Closely Topped M. Swimming, 152-146 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...attack order from the Pentagon, but everything was pointing to a confrontation. In contrast to last month, when intelligence information took days to reach the aircraft carrier, the CIA was rushing satellite-reconnaissance photos to the Nimitz's dimly lit combat center in just minutes. Out on the flight deck, pilots in F-14s and F-18s who were executing as many as six sorties a day over southern Iraq reported that Saddam was preparing for an American attack by dispersing his surface-to-air missile batteries and bunkering his jets. TIME has learned that fighters from the Nimitz planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...their theory to the test, researchers took over the wine shelves in a local supermarket. They displayed four French and four German wines "matched for their price and dryness or sweetness," indicating the origin of each vintage with a French or German flag. For two weeks, from a tape deck on an upper shelf, they played their own homemade Muzak, alternating days of French accordion and German beer-hall music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAYS OF WINE AND MUZAK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Deck: at the Edgartown Yacht Club," a crowd of upper-crust men and women schmooze on a boat. Men in sunglasses drink and chat and look vacant. Women sit clustered around a table in the foreground; their circle, like their lifestyle, is closed...

Author: By Hanna R. Shell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life And Times of a Fabled Polymath: Anthropologist of Life | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...resume a normal, unarmed routine. They think they are making progress. On Day 23 they spotted a dust mop being shaken out a window. "At least she's cleaning house," says Gainer. And on Day 24, Allen poked her head out the window and briefly ventured out on her deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STANDOFF AT ROBY RIDGE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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