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With sophomore Tom Blake winning his match in the fourth singles slot, freshman Elliot Weiss winning 6-3, 6-4 in the fifth slot and freshman Kunj Majmudar winning 6-2, 6-2 in the sixth slot, the Crimson had topped the fiercest competition the Nittany Lions had to offer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Throttle Nittany Lions, 7-0 | 3/6/1996 | See Source »

...software developers as to the public. Since no single company, not even Microsoft, can write all the software that is needed to make a new machine a success, competing computer makers are locked in a perpetual battle for the hearts and minds of the programming community. One of the fiercest skirmishes in recent months has been over the market for so-called Web browsers, in which Microsoft, Netscape and Sun all compete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY SUN'S JAVA IS HOT | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

This amendment sparked the fiercest debate of the night between those who felt as many student groups as possible should be represented and those who felt some sort of officiality was necessary for the council to assign them representatives...

Author: By Andrew A. Green and Alison D. Overholt, S | Title: Council Battles Sagging School Spirit | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...achieved remarkable success in feeding and sheltering refugees and in eradicating smallpox, to cite only two accomplishments. While a failure in Bosnia, peacekeeping has been effective in other parts of the world. But even the U.N.'s fiercest defenders agree that on the whole the swarm of agencies, funds, commissions and regional offices has operated with an inefficiency that can no longer be tolerated. The entire U.N. system spends about $10.5 billion a year. That's not a lot of money, considering the U.N.'s mission (it's about one-third of New York City's budget). Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRAINING THE SWAMP | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...most bitter fighting, however, occurred inside the White House. Opponents of Clinton's new balanced-budget strategy included, almost to the end, chief of staff Leon Panetta and his deputy, Harold Ickes. But Morris' fiercest critic has been senior adviser George Stephanopoulos. On at least two occasions, top staff members tried to negotiate a cease-fire between the two, who met for the first time in early May over a dinner arranged by Ickes. Two weeks later, there was another round of peace talks, this time in the office of Bill Curry, a moderate Democrat hired by the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REPUBLICAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

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