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According to Laura Smith in the Office of Sports Information, income from the endowment will go towards the hockey coach's salary, and the donation will serve a dual purpose...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Receives $2 Million Endowment | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

...girl game itself. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall giddily, dizzily in love. Boy dumps girl to move on to new pastures. Girl mopes. And mopes. And mopes. This familiar variation on the mating dance proves fresh and hilarious in the hands of first-time novelist Laura Zigman, whose Animal Husbandry, a naughty vivisection of male dating rituals, should do for dumped girlfriends what Olivia Goldsmith's The First Wives Club and Fay Weldon's The Life and Loves of a She-Devil did for dumped wives: hearten, console, viciously amuse. It has already been optioned for a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Milked Maids | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

...Force pilots who have flown T-3s as instructors disagree. They are the widows of Comeaux and Smith. Captain Laura Comeaux had been married to Glen 25 days when he was killed, just before the couple were to buy their first house. And Captain Elizabeth Smith gave birth to her first child, Samantha Clay, four months after her husband Clay's death. "I'm afraid they will do the same thing again and not thoroughly test all the changes they're making," says Smith. She and Comeaux refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...seven minutes per scalp, looking for signs of infestation. In the end, 12% of the students and 10% of the staff were sent home. It was the worst invasion of head lice in a long time. "In other years we have two, sometimes four cases of lice," says Laura Hart Silkwood, the principal. "This is highly, highly unusual. The numbers kept rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lousy, Nit-Picking Epidemic | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...With the schedule in flux, that show will have a tougher time finding an audience. Fortunately for NBC, it still has the rest of the season to experiment. It could build up Frasier or 3rd Rock by putting them after Seinfeld. Meanwhile, Just Shoot Me, a modest success starring Laura San Giacomo as an editor who works for a women's magazine owned by her father, is being given a Thursday tryout, as is NewsRadio, a clever show that in three seasons has never lived up to its ratings potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Can Anybody Fill Seinfeld's Shoes? | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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