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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...members of the men's golf team all wear "No Fear" hats, and the saying has become the team's motto. It is almost a way for the team to remind itself that a player's state of mind is just as integral as conditioning...

Author: By Joseph W. Lind, | Title: No Football Without Scrod | 4/5/1996 | See Source »

...CALIFORNIA THE MOTTO ON AUTOMObile license plates isn't LAND OF LITIGATION, but perhaps it should be. After all, California is the state where 1.6 million lawsuits were filed in 1993. California is where, for every 100 car accidents in which there is a damage claim, there are 66 claims of bodily injury (almost twice the national rate); in Los Angeles, for every such 100 auto accidents there are 99 claims of injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FED UP WITH LAWYERS | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...minority victims of police misconduct. By the time he joined what was to become known as the Dream Team, Cochran, 58, had already won some $45 million in damages and an impressive rate of acquittal for minority clients by exposing corruption, prejudice and incompetence in law enforcement. The unofficial motto of his 10-lawyer African-American law firm is taken from Martin Luther King Jr.: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Jurors did not require too much coaching from Cochran to believe that Simpson may have been a victim of the Los Angeles Police Department; all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: JOHNNIE COCHRAN JR. | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...True Way Baptist Church, Mayes knows little about the controversy. But she offers up a personal motto: "There's a way out, no matter how bad the circumstances in our lives." She, at least, has found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOS ANGELES COUNTY: FIXING THE SYSTEM | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...they embraced those values and methods, and often because they rebelled against them. Harvard as an institution has affected American history simply because of the colorful personalities it has touched. How many know of the circumstances, also recounted in Buell's book, behind the simple change in Harvard's motto from "Veritas" to "Christo et Ecclesiae?" President Increase Mather sponsored this amendment as an expression of Harvard's commitment to Orthodox Congregationalism in the face of the onslaught of Unitarianism--a struggle which led to the creation of another college in 1701, one Yale University by name...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Harvard History 10a | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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