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Last year's team finished the season with a flourish, and this year's squad has already elicited enough excitement to raise team expectations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Teams Win; Season Starts Well | 10/1/1996 | See Source »

...quickly, and as those who have had to wait for hours to use Science Center or Loker Commons computer terminals know, brevity has its advantages. But in notes to close friends, especially friends in remote locales, one should never choose function over fashion. Second, letters are constructed with a flourish and if a particular writer favors short muscular phrases, why not go with...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: Technology Kills Romance | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

...especially powerful, in this view, amid great income inequality, as rich and powerful men feel their romantic horizons broaden, and women--even married women--find such men attractive. (Liberals take heart: here's another pro-family-values argument against income inequality.) In this view, if monogamy is to flourish, brakes on human nature, especially male nature, are in order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: THE FALSE POLITICS OF VALUES | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...suggest that we send astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars. A station staffed by volunteer scientists would certainly have before it a lifetime of exploration and investigation not limited by a short layover. Resupplied periodically by unmanned rockets from Earth, the station would flourish and eventually grow to become the Earth colony on Mars--science fiction materialized as science fact. If one considers the major risks and astronomical expense of a return trip, not to mention the limited benefit of a short visit, a permanent stay on Mars is not so radical an idea. ALLAN I. PRESSER Fort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...relief, Buchanan was a self-canceling phenomenon. His protectionism turned off as many workers as it attracted. And coyly bigoted formulations had been embedded in his language for so long that his warnings against greedy corporate chiefs got lost in his self-produced clouds of static. But Buchanan's flourish was one more warning to Dole that his party is a breakable coalition, subject to passions its leadership can't always manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: WHERE'S THE PARTY? | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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