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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meet, which fields the eight Ivy League schools and Navy and consists of 80 runners in the men's and women's races, took place at Van Cortland Park in the Bronx. It serves as the final tune-up for both teams before NCAA Regionals, which is the qualifying round for the NCAA Championship in Indiana later, at Franklin Park on November 13th...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. X-Country Fifth, Men Ninth at Heps | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Julie Grace/Chicago, David Nordan/Atlanta and Alice Park and Andrea Sachs/New York

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Atlanta Braves survived against the New York Mets for the National League championship last week consisted of six games decided by a total of seven runs, the last two games comprising 26 innings of struggle more nearly reminiscent of rugby union than of sunlit summer afternoons at the ball park. In the American League, the Boston Red Sox's lightning comeback against the Cleveland Indians in the first round was more histrionic than their testy five-game loss to the hated Yankees, but not remotely as dramatic. No script in baseball comes close to the 80 years of back story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Best? Play Ball | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...course, the Red Sox lost. But not because of the Curse of the Bambino--the infamous mojo said to hover over Fenway Park ever since Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919--or because of a pall of New England Puritan guilt, or decades of nerves frayed into vermicelli by the exploits of Bucky Dent or Bill Buckner. The Sox lost because two mighty players--Pedro Martinez, the best pitcher in baseball, and Nomar Garciaparra, the finest shortstop whose first name happens to be his father's name spelled backward, at least until there's a better shortstop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Best? Play Ball | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...bucolic sculpture park, where modern form becomes the temptation of a jungle gym. Sadly, while "interaction" is encouraged, climbing is forbidden. The museum itself exhibits modern and contemporary American art, mostly by New England artists. The aim and presentation of the DeCordova is didactic, which results in an irritating excess of wall-text. Recent figurative painting is the perennial favorite here...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf and John Hulsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: The Field Guide: Part One of Our Guide to Boston Visual Art | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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