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Radcliffe Rugby appears to be the little known jewel of collegiate athletics. The teammates are victorious on the field and members of a tightly knit circle of friends. Possessing both a competitive spirit and the warmth of a family, the team is destined to continue its success...

Author: By Katherine E. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Rugby Team Combines Winning, Family Environment | 10/16/1997 | See Source »

Birmingham's foray into the language of love is just one example of what many see as the changing face of ethnicity in Boston's close-knit neighborhoods...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Ethnic Resurgence: Politicos Assert Italian Roots | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...positive result of the operation was that it helped preserve a threatened species. But because elephants in the wild live in tight-knit groups, the relocation was also a major experiment in social engineering--and like so many such experiments, it has had unexpected consequences. Since 1978, almost 1,500 orphan calves, 600 of them males, have been moved to unfamiliar locations and raised with no exposure to adult elephants or the hierarchical social structure that defines elephant life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUNG, SINGLE AND OUT OF CONTROL | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...Knight link is hardly arm's length. Knight, 46, went to work for Gore 20 years ago as a top aide in the House and later the Senate; today he is the man who many say is Gore's political alter ego, the smooth operator within Gore's tight-knit inner circle. His name turns up everywhere; he was even on Gore's 1989 trip to Taiwan that was led by overzealous fund raiser John Huang and included a stop at the headquarters of the Buddhist sect whose Southern California temple was host to Gore for his notorious "donor-maintenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AL GORE'S CASH MACHINE | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...dead. They called me and told me he is in a hotel room near La Guardia Airport. I don't know what to do." The distraught woman on the other end of the phone line pleaded with Orlando Tobon, or "Don Orlando" as he is known in the tight-knit neighborhood of Colombian immigrants in the Jackson Heights district of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DON ORLANDO: UNDERTAKER FOR THE MULES | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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