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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only imagine the visions dancing in the head of Harvard wrestling coach, Jay Weiss, as he led his extremely young team into the Las Vegas Invitational Tournament...
...Las Vegas. A fast-moving city of bright lights where the glitter and opulence of the few is directly contrasted with the poverty and depravity of the many. The stakes are big time, and Weiss must have known as the team drove through the magnificent city on the way to State Line, Nevada that many reputations had been made-or busted-there...
There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...
There was also no way of knowing what would transpire on Nov. 9 in Las Vegas. Holyfield, 34, and thought to be on the ropes of his career, vanquished W.B.A. champion Mike Tyson to become the only heavyweight besides Ali to win a title three separate times. By beating the supposedly invincible Tyson with an 11th-round TKO, Holyfield dealt a resounding blow to Don King's gangstas of boxing, not to mention the bookmakers who were happy to take sucker bets on the 7-1 underdog. "I got caught in something strange," said Tyson...
...dozens of historical accounts, songs and poems, four feature films, one TV miniseries, one symphony and one long-running Las Vegas spectacular have apparently not surfeited the world's appetite for Titanica. By the time James Cameron's movie arrives in theaters next summer, audiences will already be humming Nearer My God to Thee, thanks to a new storm of Titanic mania...