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Sophomore Fran Volpe, a 177 pound Harvard wrestler, said he has heard wrestlers brag about how many pounds they can lose to make weight. Volpe reminds us, though, that this pride is merely a strange offshoot of the sport and should not detract from the essence of wrestling itself...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

Formed by a core group of about 40 students just before winter break, DTI is an offshoot of UNITE and part of a larger nationwide student movement that began at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in February...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Teach-Ins Encourage Campus Activism | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Bagneris says she hesitated to run for president, not wanting to turn RUS into RADWAC, the radical RUS-offshoot she helped found and lead with several other students in campaigns to raise awareness concerning issues from violence against women to final clubs. In the end she decided to make the RUS leadership her latest challenge...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, | Title: An Activist Leads RUS | 1/23/1998 | See Source »

...movie is an offshoot of the most popular British TV comedy series of the 90s, "Mr. Bean." That show displayed the misadventures of a character who can be described as a combination of Charlie Chaplin and Woody Woodpecker. Indeed, there is a definite cartoonish quality to the silly, frivolous and mischievous schtick Atkinson perpetrates. Also cartoon-like is the inconsequential, episodic action; the audience can sit back and enjoy the mashugina machinations without bothering to worry about property damage or hurt feelings. There is a universally appealing joy in watching Atkinson interact, child-like, with the world around...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big-Screen `Bean' Doomed by Weak Plot | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...Mahayanans saw the Buddha as a divinity to whom prayers could be addressed. They also revered--and hoped to become--bodhisattvas, fully enlightened, Buddha-like beings who had won the right to enter Nirvana but chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with whacks from a ceremonial wand. As a tool toward faster enlightenment, Zen's Rinzai school had its students wrestle conundrums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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