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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both teams have competitors in every event with the potential to score. Peak performances are needed to lead these small and therefore underdog teams to strong meet and season finishes...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Heps Set to Start | 2/23/1996 | See Source »

...career as a soprano, playing Carnegie Hall and Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered Ralph's threats of domestic violence ridiculous. Yet she was also tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 19, 1996 | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

...with just two more days until the much anticipated match against Princeton, Harvard is relying on its hard training to help it ensure a victory. They've been gearing their training schedule so that they can peak for Sunday's Championship matchup...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Squash Teams Again Triumphant at Holiday Tournament | 2/2/1996 | See Source »

...hard training schedule, a home crowd advantage and the sacrifices that Harvard has repeatedly made to further its goals, should help the Crimson peak for the match of its season...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: Squash Teams Again Triumphant at Holiday Tournament | 2/2/1996 | See Source »

...blizzard of 1996 was at its peak on January 13. There were 36 inches of wet packing snow on the ground, four-foot-long icicles dangling from the eaves and a brigh? orange glow at night from the reflection of street lamps on the snow. Two Cabot House seniors with vision trudged into the middle of the Quad with buckets and pails, a few sketches and a penchant for frostbite...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Tales of the Quad God | 1/24/1996 | See Source »

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