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Watching the videotape of our simulated attacks afterwards, we still laughed. Now, though, we laughed as one woman got in that gratuitous kick at her downed aggressor; as another screamed at the top of her lungs; as another hammered the helmet right off Darth. We reveled in such displays of aggression and victory, in the disparity between a five-foot-tall female and burly HUPD officers. I don't want to speak for the entire class, but I think we all felt a little more confident and powerful. I know...

Author: By Abigail R. Branch, | Title: Defending Ourselves | 3/11/1998 | See Source »

...course at 75 m.p.h. Now, like Satoya, she stood at the bottom of the course and, unlike Satoya, delivered an irrepressible commentary as one, two, three and the rest of the 43 skiers came down, some within a whisper of her. Only the woman in the shocking orange tiger helmet, with the diamond stud glinting in her right ear, would say, "I knew it was only a matter of time before the spirits would come through." She won the race by one-hundredth of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hear Them Roar | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...winter night when Edison put his invention on public display. At his home in Menlo Park, N.J., he created the world's first showplace for electric light. Crowds of reporters and others would trudge up a hill to see lampposts, set 50 ft. apart and crowned with helmet-shaped glass bulbs, cast light over bare trees and snow-dusted fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Lights | 2/16/1998 | See Source »

...hole wasn't big enough, Harvard was dealt another setback seconds into the second stanza. Junior Craig Adams, who had scored at least one goal in the Crimson's previous three games, took a brutal hit into the boards. The impact knocked his helmet to the ice and a mild concussion, 10 stitches to the forehead and a tender shoulder forced Adams to sit out the rest of the tournament...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Rally for Third-Place Finish in Wisconsin Holiday Tournament | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...died last year, and now Yolanda lives with Tom. Their living room is filled with pictures of the whole family, but the most prominent keepsakes are Teddy's old Marshall helmet and an oil painting of a handsome young man in a green No. 14 jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BONUS STORY: A TRIUMPH OF WILL | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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