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...very well," Johnston said. "We'll be at our peak for the next game...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Upset 20th-Ranked Providence, 1-0 | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

Since its peak two decades ago, the women's movement has spawned subgroups whose diverse interests range from pushing day care to combating pornography. In some ways, feminist politics have expanded too much to keep women under one tent. In the Thomas-Hill aftermath, feminists took their energy in different directions: Geraldine Jensen, who heads a Toledo-based organization that seeks to strengthen child-support laws, says she plans to use the recent performance of the Senate Judiciary Committee to illustrate to her supporters why tough enforcement legislation has failed. "Now people will understand me when I say that these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Court: Woman Power | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...more. When things get too tough, Cantabrigians can drop by their local Visconti 2000 Center for Peak Performance and Neuro-Sensory Development, say goodbye to the world, and find their Zone...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Visconti 2000 offers Brainy Cantabridgians Mind Over Matter | 10/19/1991 | See Source »

...didn't have something on," an aide once said. In the end, Gentry argues, Hoover became prisoner of the confidential files he had amassed to keep others in thrall. Harry Truman and John Kennedy had wanted to fire Hoover, but pressure on the director to step down reached a peak during the Nixon era. Fearful that his enemies might succeed, Hoover began going through the confidential folders to determine which ones might prove damaging if they fell into the wrong hands. He had barely reached the letter c when he gave up the task as hopeless. After Hoover's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Emperor's Old Files | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard, 1989 was the Year of the Rat--the peak of the rodent invasion. The unwelcome visitors appeared everywhere from classrooms in the Yard to dumpsters behind kitchens, according to Entymology Officer of Environmental Health and Safety Gary D. Alpert...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: No More Rats??!!.. Task Force Wins War | 10/3/1991 | See Source »

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