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The rare flash of offensive brilliance from a player known better for his bone-crushing checks and hard-nosed play bodes well for a team in need of some offensive spark. The Crimson will need all the goals it can get if it hopes to rebound from last year's...

Author: By Dov J. Glickman, | Title: Harvard's Philpott Of Gold | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Hass says coaches at Princeton took his parents out for private dinners. Princeton's track coach, in particular, is notorious for his hard-nosed sales tactics.

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod and Victoria E.M. Cain, S | Title: How Sports Stars Are Found | 11/17/1995 | See Source »

While most species of bats live in vast colonies in caves or trees, some nest in spider webs; others fashion "tents" out of leaves. In southern India, for example, the male short-nosed fruit bat spends as long as two months painstakingly chewing the veins of leaves and palm fronds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATS' NEW IMAGE | 8/21/1995 | See Source »

At a Boys Nation meeting at the White House in 1963, 16-year-old delegate Bill Clinton nosed through the crowd for a now-famous (and duly photographed) handshake with President Kennedy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BTW | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

And yet Reed, and a growing number of politicians who support her, held their ground last week. For three years, the county's revenues have lagged hundreds of millions of dollars behind its budgets, with the deficits covered through big-time borrowing. This year the lenders, spooked by the spectacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SOCIAL EMERGENCY | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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