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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...adore his diligence and willingness to stretch beyond what is required. And everyone is amazed that despite his achievements as a student (3.4 average), an athlete (baseball, track and golf), a musician (honors choir) and volunteer (Big Brother, among others), he remains, as headmaster Robert Weintraub puts it, "the nicest guy on the planet, the most decent guy in the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make A Better Student: Their Eight Secrets of Success | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...unique mixture of aggression and vulnerability, and to have owned a fast bike is, in some degree, to be inoculated against the bloated status envy that goes with the plushier forms of American motoring. Bike manufacturers have gone to inordinate lengths to make bikes seem respectable. "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" was the message of a brilliantly devised advertising campaign in the 1950s designed to counter the undoubted truth that you met some of the nastiest ones on a Harley or (as in The Wild One) a Triumph 650. But in essence, bikes aren't respectable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going Out On The Edge | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...probably the nicest place I'll ever stay in," Albert said...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Articulate Arguers Accrue Accolades | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

...integral part of College life, with eight squash courts integrated into the basement of Dunster House, Harvard's first house (established circa 1930). Many other courts are scattered through the houses, at Linden Street and in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Prior to the Soldier's Field complex, the newest and nicest courts were in the Quad...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: A Game for the Leisure Class | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

Karla Faye Tucker is the nicest woman on death row. She is so nice, in fact, and so well liked by people who know her that it is virtually impossible to look at this attractive, sweet-natured, born-again Christian and imagine the gruesome crime to which she confessed in Houston, Texas, on June 13, 1983. Back then she was a drug-addicted prostitute who, during a weekend orgy with her boyfriend, had consumed an astonishing quantity of heroin, Valium, speed, percodan, mandrax, marijuana, dilaudid, methadone, tequila and rum. The two then took a pickax and hacked to death Jerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why So Many Want to Save Her | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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