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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same cannot be said for many of Boston's draft-day selections; although they have no doubt learned Italian or discovered the best doughnut shop in Cedar Rapids, few have ever contributed to any NBA team...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: A Tale of Two Franchises | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...result of natural selection. While hominids were evolving, a certain amount of fear and wariness was a good idea. Rather than being the norm, then, the people who are always cheery and who see the bright side and who say things like "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole" are in fact carrying a maladaptive genetic flaw. So why haven't they died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OEDIPUS, SCHMOEDIPUS | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...Supreme Judicial Court overturned 1979 and 1985 decisions that Kater, a former doughnut shop manager, murdered Mary Lou Arruda, 15, because testimony from hypnotized witnesses was used to identify the model and license plate number of Kater...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Framingham Man Pleads Insanity in Murder | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...experience, teaching tolerance, since it rendered all co-users equally attractive and all rock bands equally talented. I may also have believed that GETTING STONED engendered profound INSIGHTS, which I may have, at least once, attempted to record with a Day-Glo marker on the back of an empty doughnut box (in Molinari's world, this would be known as a "LAB REPORT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING OVER GETTING STONED | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...Vipers, who face charges including illegal-weapons possession and conspiracy, are seemingly unobtrusive, working-class folk. Randy Lynne Nelson, 32, the alleged Viper leader, is a house painter; Dean Carl Pleasant, 27, another suspect, is a former doughnut maker; Henry Alfred Overturf, 37, is a bouncer for a local strip club; Ellen Adella Belliveau, 27, worked for AT&T. It was Belliveau who allegedly suggested during one meeting that the militia retaliate against the families of federal agents in case Vipers were arrested. None of the others apparently agreed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEST OF VIPERS | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

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