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...raised $2.7 million, just to see if he could, but of course he's mostly cutting his own checks.) On the Democratic side, the faintness of Al Gore's pulse has kept things closer ? the veep has netted only $18.5 million, with $11.5 million riding on the alternative, former jock and senator Bill Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign-Finance Reform vs. Big Bucks: How They'll Play in 2000 | 7/9/1999 | See Source »

...onslaught of awards and SAT scores. The other reason, I suspect, is that many people came here with the same secret purpose as me: to leave that old self behind, and never speak of him or her again. The effete intellectual type here might well have been a jock in high school. The confrontational Crimson reporter was shy and reserved. The campus socialite was a high school misfit...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Defining Your Identity at College | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Jock: 1. The obnoxious people inyour sections who won't let anyone else get a wordin edgewise. 2. Senators in training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...sharpest-looking war in American history. The numbers are remarkable: 99.6% of allied bombs--NATO dropped 20,000 of them--found their targets. NATO pilots flew some 35,000 sorties, and though two U.S. planes were shot down, it was the kind of war in which a fighter jock could be hit on an overnight raid and by sunrise be sipping coffee in Italy--and praising the Lord for helping him find the ejection handle. Stunningly, in a war that NATO believes killed some 5,000 Yugoslavs, not a single allied pilot died. Western military technology finally seemed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warfighting 101 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...champion at Wimbledon, who changed the way we look at female athletes--and, more important, changed the way they look at one another. "She was a crusader fighting a battle for all of us," said Navratilova. "She was carrying the flag; it was all right to be a jock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Most Influential Athletes Of The Century | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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