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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would seem the height of cockeyed optimism for anyone to try to unshoe him; yet not one, but two cockeyed optimists are contending in North Carolina's Democratic primary next week for the sporting honor of challenging the Senator when he runs for a fifth term in November. One is Harvey Gantt, an architect and former two-term mayor of Charlotte who pulled off a respectable 47% to Helms' 53% of the vote when he tried to dislodge Helms in 1990. The other is Charlie Sanders, a millionaire physician, educator, onetime pharmaceuticals executive and a newcomer to politics...
...summon ghostly characters from previous books to play full-blooded roles in his latest work?" Readers familiar with Kennedy's earlier work in 'Ironweed' and 'Billy Phelan's Greatest Game' will remember Edward Daugherty. Forgotten and senile by the 1930's in 'Billy Phelan', Daugherty is shown at the height of his powers in 'The Flaming Corsage,' when his play of the same name scandalizes proper Albanians in 1912. "At just over 200 pages, 'The Flaming Corsage' contains more dramatic events, bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length," says Sheppard. "The generous spirit is best reflected...
...subject of which building is the tallest. Chicago argued that a tall building ought to be measured to its highest occupied floor rather than to its structural top. That would make the Sears Towers taller than the Kuala Lumpur building, which gets its final 242 ft. of height from some decorative spires that I believe are referred to in the local dialect as tchotchkes...
...debate over ROTC at Harvard dates back to 1969. In that year, during the height of the Vietnam War, a group of Harvard students and faculty protested ROTC's presence on campus because of its ties to the military. As a result, ROTC was pushed off campus, and Harvard students who wanted to participate in it commuted...
...Crimson was clearly up against a team with superior talent and despite playing its best half of basketball all season, the Crimson could neither handle Vanderbilt's height, nor Sam's 39 point effort...