Word: leading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard indeed would do more than hold on to a victory after building a comfortable lead with these wins--it would demolish Brown...
Those statements came in the form of ousting individual Ivy champs in their best events. Gustafsson began by downing defending champ Cowan in the 500-freestyle with a time of 5:01.06, and Murphy and Fraser took her lead, as both defeated former champ Judy Koonstra in the 100-butterfly at 57.06 and 57.26, respectively...
...Game Boy and its prize feature: a cable that could link any two Game Boys together. "I imagined an insect moving back and forth across the cable. That's what inspired me." Tajiri had hit upon the basic idea that would make the Pokemon a marketing wonder. Collecting would lead to trading between handhelds--and eventually between collectors of cards and plastic battle figures...
Next year Hoffman will portray his first romantic lead in David Mamet's State and Main, opposite Rebecca Pidgeon, but he scoffs at the notion of Hollywood stardom. He will, he says, continue living in New York City, doing theater (he'll make his Broadway debut in a revival of Sam Shepard's True West in February) and worrying about his love life. "I date," he says. "But it's a nightmare. You're traveling all the time. I gotta figure it out, because I want to get married and have kids someday." Listening, Amy? There's still time...
...custom by praying five times a day, says he's alarmed by the thousands of e-mails he receives daily, mostly from women. Now he might be the one "invitated" abroad to barter his fame. He is currently weighing offers to go to the U.S., including one that might lead to a film deal...