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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although it's rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here and there, but more often than not, it all comes back to the same, basic body...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Dieting Dilemmas--Just a Waste of Time | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...transform the Crimson's faint title hopes into reality, Princeton needs to lose one of its last two, and Brown must utterly collapse and drop its final two matches to give Harvard a share of the title...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Suffers Tough Home Loss to Tigers | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...final effort, Daschle and Lott agreed that the test-ban treaty could be withdrawn if Democrats promised, as Republicans demanded, not to introduce it again during Clinton's presidency except under "extraordinary circumstances." Republicans, who feel they always lose when they cut a deal with Clinton, wouldn't go for that one. As White House press secretary Joe Lockhart said, "They act as if they're afraid even to get in the same room with us because they'll get taken." In the year to come they won't be taking much. Or giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutually Assured Destruction | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...would never have to sell a share of stock again. Until then, though, remind me next year that you can never take off enough stock ahead of these 31 days unless you are a total masochist. What is it about this month that causes people to lose their senses and chop a third or even a half off the value of solid American companies, like Xerox or Raytheon or Unisys, that screwed up for a quarter? Why do people who are perfectly rational shareholders the 11 other months of the year get gripped with a frenzied groupthink that forces them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. November | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Firebird, however, is not without comic relief. Giant storks, with five-foot long necks, as well as other odd castle creatures provide laughs, but never does Wheeldon lose the carefully cultivated menacing atmosphere of Kastchei's land...

Author: By Diana R. Movius, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take Me Out to (and Knock Me Out at) the Ballet | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

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