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Entering this past Saturday's matches against Western Ontario and Cornell, the men's team was poised to continue its success, coming off an impressive win against Brown on November 18. The team did not disappoint, either, beating Western Ontario, 7-2, and crushing Cornell...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: M. Squash Garners Two Over Weekend | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

Brown comes into the match as the undisputed Goliath of the league. It came into the season expecting to take it all, and it has done little to disappoint those expectations. It is 10-2-1 overall...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: Ivy Soccer's Climax: Harvard vs. Brown | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

...turns out, Closing Time (Simon & Schuster; 464 pages; $24) will disappoint both camps. It is neither a triumphant replay nor a crass commercial scam but rather an alternately appealing and annoying bag of mostly old tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Catch-23 | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

...said, "You are having the experience of a lifetime...it just seems like whatever I'm up to is insignificant compared to the feats that you have accomplished in this short amount of time." Well for all the Khosrofs our there who might be reading this, I hate to disappoint you, but my life here is probably no more exciting than yours. I am not having the experience of a lifetime simply by virtue of the name "Harvard" beside my picture on the Summer School...

Author: By Tiffany Kanotz, | Title: Welcome to Reality | 8/9/1994 | See Source »

Impressionist and modern art auctions continued to disappoint. At Christie's and Sotheby's, artworks that were estimated to reap between $160 million and $215 million instead brought in $101 million -- a stunning setback for the already shaky art market. Although works by a few artists sold at higher-than- expected prices, the surprises were not enough to offset the embarrassments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week May 8-15 | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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