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...weeks before the 1996 election, Democrat Bill Yellowtail was in a neck-and-neck race for Montana's only House seat when a TV ad swooped out of the Big Sky. "Who is Bill Yellowtail?" it opened. "He preaches family values, but he took a swing at his wife." Yellowtail lost. A year later he's still trying to figure out who really took a swing at him. The ad's sponsor was a nonprofit group with a do-gooder name, Citizens for Reform. But the deeper mystery was how the organization knew to air a domestic incident more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET G.O.P. CAMPAIGN | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

...repercussions of the potentially dangerous neck compression, which turned out to not be serious, is that the insurance company will not allow the cheerleaders to perform stunts until they have a coach. Although she points out, "It's not like a coach is going to catch the girl who's falling," L. Elaine Chestney '98, the president of the cheerleading club, said, "Having a coach is a very good thing," since such a gymnastic and potentially dangerous sport as cheerleading requires a coach to help perfect technique and prevent accidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheerleaders Need A Coach--Fast | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

...says, "cast. Fuh-ill, fill." And how well are Cox's pupils learning to read and write? Earlier, one named Denise stood at the blackboard: "I like the pink flamingo..." she wrote. "Very good," said Cox. But Denise was not finished: "...because it has a long neck and it is pink." Only 72% of the third-graders in the state passed a recent reading test; for Mading the figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW JOHNNY SHOULD READ | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...Rauschenberg is and always has been a gusher. He loves the sound, smell, grunge and look of the street. He doesn't look at his sources in American vernacular--photos, movies, and junk of all kinds--with anything resembling irony or distance. He is in it up to the neck and wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THE GREAT PERMITTER | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Harvard men's cross country placed ninth in Friday's five-mile New England championship meet. Caught in a bottle-neck at the start of the race, the men had a slow first mile and couldn't make up the time...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cross Country Teams Battle at Franklin Park | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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