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Based on previous results, the heavyweights came into the race as the third-fastest crew in the field behind Princeton and Penn...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Varsity Crews Struggle at Easterns | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with the trading cards, some schools have banned them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pokemon: The Cutest Obsession | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Taps, a relatively new dance troop specializing in--you guessed it--tap dancing joined the troupe for this performance and was equally enchanting. The feet were fast, the click of the shoes faster and the audience the fastest of all to acknowledge their skill. And alas! those darn toothy smiles! These dancers all looked like they were actually having fun gyrating on the stage, an exceedingly far cry from the tense grimaces otherwise normal people might display if forced to dance the Macarena at a spring formal. And those smiles made all the difference...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vicarious Vibes Steam Pool House | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...first race, Yale's time of 6:48.4 was the team's fastest on the day and was good enough to top Radcliffe...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Heavies Top Yale; No. 2 Men's Lights Fall | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...home schooling of his four children, was until recently a high school teacher who cited as his inspiration the schoolroom classic To Kill a Mockingbird. But in the midst of this unpresuming existence, his meticulously researched yet crackling debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), became one of the fastest-selling literary novels of the decade, moving more than 2.5 million copies in paperback even as it won critical prizes. (The movie version will be released this fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Different Journey | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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