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...field was a mess," Larson said. "We basically had to stay out of the midfield. There was so much standing water in the middle of the field, that we couldn't make any passes, so we just stayed on the outsides...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Upsets No. 9 BYU, 1-0 | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

When Pauline Einstein learned that her beloved son Albert was consorting with a fellow physics student--one who was older, of another faith and from the backwaters of the Balkans--she was devastated. "If she gets a child, you'll be in a pretty mess," his mother warned him. But the 22-year-old Albert, as roguishly independent in his personal life as he would be in his science, brushed off Mutti's agitated words and continued the romance. On Jan. 27, 1902, nine months after an idyllic interlude at Lake Como, Albert's classmate--and future wife--Mileva Maric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein's Lost Child | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...boxes and generally surviving on schemes and scams. He's a prodigy, strong and cunning and passionate, but as mired in misfortune as his native land, whose history soon becomes mixed up with his own. Henry and Ireland, Ireland and Henry--for Doyle they're the same big, bloody mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best of the Boyos | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...mopping up the mess that Gore made of his own campaign fell to Coelho, a party operative recruited in May. He has seized control of Gore's schedule and made sure that no one but he and message guru Carter Eskew have day-to-day access to the candidate. So determined is Gore to divorce himself from the details that when his wife Tipper recently raised a question about the campaign, Gore answered, only partly joking, "Have you talked to Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Gore's Campaign Went Off the Rails | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...clown makeup on them and you've got another band. It's not [really] music. I'm sorry, but you know what--I can get a seven string guitar, I can tune it down two steps and play with some bass guitar effects, I can get some numbskull to [mess] with their turntable and you know what--I too can be Limp Bizkit, I too can be Korn. I can run around in reverse Black Face; I can paint my face white and put on stupid little dark circles and go "Yo, I'm the juggalo" and talk about drinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

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