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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kelly Black of the women's basketball team, the road to playing Division I basketball made pit stops at every chapter of the classic outline...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Black Undaunted by Injury-Plagued Career | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...contend Jon removed the $629,500, is not listed on their tax returns. "It is my belief," Murray adds darkly, "that funds were moved from accounts by an unknown person after the date they actually vanished." Murray, who once described his mother's actions as directed "from [the] fiery pit," now speaks of seeking "closure" regarding the fate of his family. And in this he is not alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...while other Harvardians gawked at the grunge-wearing teenagers in the "pit," Cambridge students merrily waved to their old high school buddies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For natives of Cambridge, enrolling at Harvard has special benefits, drawbacks | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...there are very few flat notes on little side solos, and the moments of all-cast a cappella are worthy of--dare we say it--Memorial Church. All this is atop an orchestra which, despite an occasionally over-zealous snare, disappears from consciousness after the overture as the best pit orchestras know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G&S 'Pirates' Combines Physical, Verbal Derring-Do | 12/12/1996 | See Source »

...other side of Capitol Hill, the President's chief inquisitor on such issues as the Democratic fund-raising scandal will be a man who has never pretended to be impartial. Dan Burton has described himself as a partisan "pit bull," and once performed a re-enactment of Vince Foster's death by shooting bullets into a "headlike object" in his own yard. But the G.O.P. Congressman from Indianapolis insists he wants to make a fresh start in January, when he will take command of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the panel that does most of the investigating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE HOUSE, A ZEALOT TALKS SOFTLY | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

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