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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lone holdover form the staff of former Head Coach Joe Restic is Vince Arduini, who will be the recruiting coordinator and running back coach...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: Murphy Names New Staff | 1/12/1994 | See Source »

...Christmas morning a nearly frozen John Steward crawled out from the cardboard box across the street from Columbia University. He has lived there for two years, but because it's not a valid address, he can't collect welfare. The lone nickel inside his coat pocket would hardly get him breakfast. But Steward wasn't worried. While he was panhandling for spare change the day before on upper Broadway in Manhattan, someone handed him a booklet of vouchers good for a dollar's worth of food at any of seven local stores. Trading them in for a bagel and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brother, Can You Spare a Voucher? | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...meeting, the lone dissenter, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, said, "The appearance of this proposal on the Faculty floor marks a foolish and almost pitiful surrender to feminism...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, | Title: CARVING OUT A DISCIPLINE | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...spoke of his recent rediscovery of "what itmeans to be Asian." Having just graduated a highschool in which 35 percent of the class was Asian,Lim said he was shocked to meet students atHarvard who were the lone Asians in theirhometown...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: AAA Elects Cho, Ching Next Co-Presidents | 12/17/1993 | See Source »

That storyteller must also have understood that even though Schindler, a hypnotically ambiguous character -- he was a drinker, womanizer, black marketeer and con artist -- was operating in a charnel house, he was finally that classically empathetic, inspirational figure, the lone individual doing good in a desperately dangerous context. If you could get an audience to accept that context, you could involve them with a man who, though antiheroic in some of his behavior, was in his essence a movie hero of quite a familiar, beloved kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heart of Darkness | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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