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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certainly been parcticing a long time," Graham said. "Our conditioning has gotten better and our doubels teams are stronger--but it's hard to know how good you are without real matches...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: GWU Tennis Matches Cancelled | 3/19/1994 | See Source »

When I came to the shower scene, I braced myself to be disappointed this brief passage has gotten so much attention that it will have to be a downer, I figured. Not so. In a series of astonishing cuts (of two different kinds), Hitchcock gets away with, well, murder. He shows us the approach of Mother through the shower curtain, which would theoretically dull the effect of the attack that follows, without lessening the primal terror we feel when she does attack one bit. The shower runs throughout the scene (and well into the following one), draining the blood...

Author: By Jake S. Kreilkamp, | Title: PSYCHCEDIPUS | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...such a crush on him. Maybe it was the power thing." Or maybe it was a psychological trick she played on herself in order to do better in the class. After all, she notes, "after doing all that work, I got the best grade I have gotten in math at Harvard...

Author: By Daniela Bleichmar, | Title: That Obscure Object of Desire: | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...together some really good teams while she's been here," Harvard senior co-captain Margot, McAnaney said. "Ever since I've been here we've gotten to the NCAA's and have ended the season thinking that we could've won it all. We've almost been disappointed...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: W. Lacrosse Searches for Elusive National Title | 3/16/1994 | See Source »

...says, "the world is different. Carnivores need immense home ranges." H. erectus probably ate both meat and plants, as humans do today. But, says Walker, "there was a qualitative difference between these creatures and other primates. I think they actively hunted. I've always said that they should have gotten out of Africa as soon as possible." Could H. erectus have traveled all the way to Asia in just tens of thousands of years? Observes Walker: "If you spread 20 miles every 20 years, it wouldn't take long to go that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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