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...sport that is dominated by teams from the West Coast, the fact that last year's team from Harvard came in eighth at the National Collegiate Championships is a remarkable feat. But to write, as you did, that this was the "first-ever" appearance for Harvard is simply incorrect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Ignore Women's Water Polo | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

...Research has demonstrated that students' perception of peer drug use norms may be substantially incorrect and that students may be negatively influenced by exaggerated perceptions beyond any influence of the actual peer norms," Perkins writes in his 1991 paper titled "Misperceptions of Peer Drug Use Norms Among College Students: Causes, Consequences and Potential Resolutions...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: How to Fight Binge Drinking | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...BALL GAME Thanks to the all-American virtues of Cal Ripken Jr., the all-Japanese windup of Hideo Nomo and an exciting though politically incorrect all-Indian World Series, the national pastime was back in good graces after the shame of '94. Of course, the players and owners still haven't smoked a peace pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of 1995: SPORTS COMEBACKS | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...there are many questions that archaeology cannot now answer. Did Pilate pass judgment on Jesus at the Antonia fortress near the Temple site, or at Herod's palace across town? (If the latter, then the famed Via Dolorosa--the route that Jesus followed carrying his cross to Golgotha--is incorrect.) Is the tomb of Jesus beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as tradition holds, or some place unknown outside the Old City's walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NEW TESTAMENT'S UNSOLVED MYSTERIES | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...have come poaching. Steven Spielberg's new DreamWorks studio has hired Katz to develop new TV projects, and he is already at work on two potential sitcoms, one each for ABC and NBC. (Katz describes them only as "animated and not Friends"). Meanwhile, ABC is talking about acquiring Politically Incorrect in 1997, possibly to follow Nightline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: BEYOND THE ONE-LINERS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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