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Bill Waterson's strip about a hyperactive kid and his overactive imagination is a neo-comic strip. It has all the conventional characters--suburban parents, a smart-aleck kid, a female foil and a school bully. It's wrapped in a clean, cute art style. And it's funny...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Calvin and Hobbes:Leaping From the Cosmos to Suburbia | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

...participants are unusually passionate about this rather obscure, unpopular sport filled with strange, hard-to-pronounce European names. "It is combat, and there's romance to it," says Arthur Phillips, the number-one foil fencer on the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Celebrate Centennial in Style | 3/11/1989 | See Source »

Harvard's inexperience--the team has only two seniors--was apparent as the Elis won handily in all three weapons: 7-2 in the sabre, 7-2 in the foil, and 6-3 in the epee. But despite the score, the Crimson put forth a tremendous effort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Crush Swordsmen; Crimson Ends Season | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...roommate planned to get to Harvard Hall and join our upstairsneighbor who had been there since 5 a.m. and was the first person on line. Little did she know that a lynch mob of huge water polo players would foil her plan...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: Going Through Hell for Hockey | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

...automatically too. Just include a surcharge on their driver's-license fees. Penalize city dwellers for their higher rate of claims? Sure, but do it automatically, by basing the amount of the deductible on the place the accident occurs: higher in cities, lower in the country. (This would also foil urban drivers who cheat by registering their cars in the boondocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fill 'Er Up with No-Fault, Please | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

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