Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting to the semis, Green scored a major upset in defeating Dartmouth's No. 1 player Eric Holzer. Green's 6-1, 7-6 victory, combined with Lee's defeat of Kleigerman, solidified the Crimson's position at the top of the Ivy League. Only Dartmouth and Princeton brought their top players, and both were defeated by players from the middle of the Crimson lineup...
...despite its ranking, came into Saturday's game on a two-game losing streak, having succumbed 2-1 in overtime to both Cornell and the University of New Hampshire. Yet Big Green Coach Fran O'Leary must have been confident in the ability of his two major goal scorers, seniors Chris Pedrick and Chris Dedicheck, who have combined for 15 goals already this season...
...used to get knocked for making stuff up," Wenner says. "But in my experience with him, which is 25 years, he's never made anything up, any detail of fact." Wenner believes Wolfe's strenuous pursuit of precise details, both in his journalism and fiction, has produced a major body of work. "If you read it all together as one piece, you would understand the amazing modern crazy quilt and fabric of contemporary America better than [through] any other thing I can imagine seeing or reading or looking...
Wolfe was a baseball pitcher for his team at Washington and Lee University and says if he had been good enough to reach the major leagues, he would probably never have become a writer. But except for squash, he has been content to remain a spectator of sports ever since. "I never played golf or tennis, and the money I didn't waste on those pursuits I wasted on clothes." He says he owns "30 or 40 suits, I guess" and rewards himself for a good day's work by visiting his tailor to discuss new possibilities. "When...
...took readers from the hallways of the White House to the halls of a major teaching hospital. What a welcome change! The American public is far more interested in the activities of the intern whose job involves saving lives than in those of the intern who played naughty games with our President. ANN DOW West Deptford...