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...winning the Howe Cup again this weekend, the Crimson wrapped up its fifth straight national championship, an unprecedented mark. The Crimson dominated its early competition, but was more impressive in its 5-4 defeat of rival Princeton in the finals...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: ATHLETES of the WEEK | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

...investment banker, which he shares with the two other prominent members of Clinton's negotiating team, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles. Theirs is a culture in which winning is cutting the deal and the politician's concept of a strategic defeat--to fail now so you can triumph later--is just money wasted. That Raines should find himself on the front lines at this moment is also the culmination of a personal voyage in which he managed to take a Democrat's life story and turn it into a Republican's resume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUTTING EDGE | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

Included in this assault are Dartmouth's 47 point loss to Texas A&M, Columbia's 40 point defeat by Georgetown, and Harvard's own 44 point drubbing at the hands of George Washington...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Harvard Stays Dominant in Ivy League | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

Even Virginia McCaskey, daughter of Chicago Bears patriarch George Halas, seemed tickled to hand the Halas Trophy over to the Packers after their 30-13 defeat of the Carolina Panthers in the National Football Conference title game. Defensive end Reggie White, the proclaimed Minister of Defense, who turns every podium into a pulpit, said to the congregation, "Green Bay, I hope you're proud of us, because we are proud of you." Quarterback Brett Favre, who has been through a little too much for his 27 years, reminded the flock of a promise he had made. "I remember telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS OF THE PACK | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...Castro Prison, a squalid penitentiary on Lima's outskirts that houses scores of captured rebels from the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Seeing Fujimori, the Tupac prisoners spring angrily from the concrete beds inside their overcrowded cells. Fists raised, they hurl deafening Marxist choruses: "Fujimori, dictator, the people will defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THEIR FACE | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

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