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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the quick Crimson outburst, a back-and-forth defensive struggle sent both teams into the half with the Crimson leading...

Author: By Brian C. Clay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Blitzes Brown | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Sports Night is about a nightly cable show of that name, modeled on ESPN's SportsCenter, on which two anchors cover dozens of athletic events while trading jokes back and forth. (Like ABC, ESPN is owned by Disney, and while Sports Night was developed independently of SportsCenter, there are plans to cross-promote them.) Peter Krause and Josh Charles play the anchors Casey and Dan, Felicity Huffman is the producer Dana, and Robert Guillaume is the show's executive producer Isaac. Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter for A Few Good Men and The American President, created Sports Night and is among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Distinct? Or Extinct? | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Michael S. Dukakis bantered back and forth with a crowd of about 100 students in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night, commenting on Tuesday's elections, party politics, voter apathy and a host of other issues...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dukakis Stresses Grassroots Politics | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

However, any omissions are excused by the final two tracks. The fragile "All I Want Is You" stretches on for over six minutes, prolonging the anguish set forth by Bono's mournful yet strong vocals and Edge's subtle guitar playing. The song crescendos to a wailing, yearning climax and then fades away gradually. There is silence for a few minutes, and then the brittle piano chords of "October" start. Sparse and lonely, like a barren tree in winter, "October" is U2 at its finest, displaying some of the strongest emotions on the album with the simplest, minimalist music...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: U2 THE GOLDEN YEARS... | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...finally hit in January 1997. "I'd never been depressed before," he says, "and I couldn't understand what was happening to me. I looked at the novel and thought it was a failure. I hadn't told enough about Charlie's early life, Conrad was dull and so forth. It seemed useless to go on with it." At this point, Wolfe's inborn personal reticence became an obstacle to his recovery. He once told an interviewer that he would not take his troubles to his best friend, and he has, in print, cast an unwaveringly gimlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tom Wolfe: A Man In Full | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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