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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emotion came after she was asked what position she played in soccer ("I've always been a halfback"). When the next question was Marc Zigo's position, she sighed, closed her eyes and looked down at the floor, shaking her head. Then she looked up and said with bemused disgust, "He's a striker." Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX IN THE MILITARY: DEEP DOWN IN MY HEART I KNOW WHAT'S TRUE | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

Shouted slogans elicit reactions of disgust--not exactly the best image for a group trying to foster social change. So as I walked in the other direction from the demonstration, I wondered why those protesting were opting to spend part of their busy Harvard lives standing around screaming. If Harvard were somehow blatantly ignoring the facts of the diversity situation by aggressively and repeatedly under-hiring minorities, then maybe then their sore throats would be justified. Instead, the diversity coalition threw away its potentially great influence...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: The Empty Shout | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

...love with other people: Sir Marmaduke becomes engaged to Constance's mother, the lower-class Mrs. Partlet (Laurie Sheflin '97); Constance herself falls for the old and deaf Notary (Bill Plerholpes '00); and Alexis' own beloved Aline begins to adore Dr. Daly. Even the sorcerer himself, much to his disgust, is chased around a well by the lovestruck Lady Sangazure. Frustrated and furious, Alexis demands that Wells break the spell. Wells informs him that someone must be sacrificed to Satan, and it will be either Alexis or himself. At the townspeople's request, Wells leaves Earth for the fires...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Falling Under the Spell of 'The Sorcerer' | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

This time it is the defense attorney who interrupts. "Your honor, if I may?" The judge waves his hand in disgust, but it is clear that the green lawyer has the floor. "Seattle has endured a long age of sports ineptitude. Do you remember the Mariner teams of the 70's? Probably not, since not only did the teams frequently inhabit the loss column in triple-digits, the franchise only came to be in the second half of the decade. How about the Seahawks? Only once in their existence has Seattle's NFL franchise, if I can even call...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Seattle's Best | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...still fighting. By last Friday, a week after the attack, Lenard had yet to regain full consciousness. While a parade of politicians and community leaders filed past his hospital bed to pay their respects, the rest of the city wrestled with feelings of profound disgust, anger and shame evoked by a crime with unusual symbolic weight. The suspects in the attack, Michael Kwidzinski, 19, Victor Jasas, 17, and Frank Caruso, 18, live in Bridgeport, a neighborhood near Chicago's old stockyards that has given the city five of its last eight mayors, including Richard M. Daley, who grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO'S LAST HOPE | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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