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...years I've coveted my neighbor's satellite dish. And while there's no explicit commandment against it, I knew it wasn't good for me to imagine him, smug in his vibra-chair, watching unusual and exotic programming--sumo wrestling from Japan, I bet, or The Larry Sanders Show reruns--while I was stuck with $50-a-month basic cable plus HBO and no pay-per-view. Last week, I'm delighted to say, I found an excuse to get my own direct-broadcast satellite TV. EchoStar, the second-largest DBS provider in the U.S., has just rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Neighbor's Dish | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...dirty hit. That's for sure," Bourque said. "There's a lot more games to play. You can dish it out. Sometimes you find yourself on the other side of those hits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasek Back in Form as Buffalo Wins, 3-1 | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...were getting nowhere. My son's game habit was resisting all the negative reinforcement I could dish out. In fact, the habit was awesome to behold. Nat would arrive home from school and be drawn, as if by some tractor beam, straight to the den. When his friends were present, there was a nearly indecipherable babble: "Hit Bongo Bongo with the ice arrows." "Switch to the Biggoron sword." "Use the Lens of Truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Love Zelda | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...High School in Bethlehem, Pa., it is not unheard of for the punks--who often sport black clothing, tattoos and spiky hair--to be taunted in the hallways. "They call 'em dirty, say stuff like 'Why don't you bathe?'" says a student. Often it is the athletes who dish out the abuse. Haakon Espeland, 14, switched out of Brooklyn's Fort Hamilton High, where he was one of the "freaks." The reason he fled: a stream of abuse, starting on his first day at school, when "all these huge people beat on me, basically for being there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: A Curse Of Cliques | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Fully laid out, the junior first baseman came to a screeching stop in the Fenway Park dirt--a full three feet from the dish...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Wins Beanpot Consolation | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

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