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...last year's rookie recipient Joey Killar, the Crimson continued its climb up the national ladder this past weekend with an impressive sixth-place finish at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Grapplers Strike Jackpot in Vegas | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

...film doesn't shirk from conveying the keen sense that in the face of so much agony, an act of compassion had as random an impact in saving a life as did the mortar shells in ending so many. No one is left heartened by a false sense that good somehow triumphed in Sarajevo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE WAY IT WAS | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...died only a year after the divorce ? lawyers for Prince Charles considered trying to get a court to overturn the settlement and return the money to her ex-husband, who would put it in a trust for his sons. A spokeswoman for the Prince of Wales said: "We are keen that all tax dealings should be seen as straightforward and that there should be no question of the Royal Family receiving preferential treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diana and the Taxman | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...narrative moving along quickly. However, beneath the deceptive surface-simplicity, the novel is so richly textured that it deserves repeated reading. Filled with brilliant throwaway lines ("her voice like a little broom sweeping off the dust that had piled up on the slates of a venetian blind"), its keen observations about relationships are reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1995 film "Chungking Express...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Surreal 'Chronicle' Traces Search for Cat, Identity in Japan | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Implicit in Schachten's defense is the presumption that the government keeps a keen eye on nursing homes. A decade ago, Congress passed a major nursing-home reform bill, which did help to cut down on the use of physical restraints and tranquilizers. But in 1995 a quarter of the nation's nursing homes failed even to assess each patient's needs or develop individual care plans, federal records show. Even more failed to ensure sanitary food, and about 1 in 5 didn't provide proper treatment for bedsores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NURSING HOMES: FATAL NEGLECT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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