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...that the team played badly. On the contrary, Harvard dominated for most of the first period and outshot the Eagles in two out of the three periods. Maybe it's just plain had luck...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: Voodoo | 11/29/1995 | See Source »

...Roof, with its layers of grandiloquent Southern mendacity, might serve as an emblem for the life of its creator. The playwright with the arresting name of Tennessee was born plain Thomas; Williams wreathed himself in beguiling inventions and evasions. Some of these were the by-product of a well-meaning gentility, as in his and his family's attempts to veil from the world the tragedy of his sister Rose, whose schizophrenia ended catastrophically in a lobotomy. Some were solitary acts of cool calculation, as when he lopped three years off his age to render himself eligible for a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE GRAND DISSEMBLER | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Karadzic to maintain the peace. "Milosevic can deliver the votes from the senior leaders, but the question is whether they can deliver all the troops," says Waller. "There are a lot of Bosnian Serb soldiers under a very loose command structure. There are freelancers and plenty of just plain armed thugs. And that's a worry to the Pentagon." The other worry, Waller reports, is that President Clinton's belief that one year of peacekeeping will solidify the peace is unrealistic. "The U.S. military doesn't think that the Bosnian Serbs will take on the NATO force directly," says Waller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAZARDS AHEAD | 11/24/1995 | See Source »

...rule that the College has about undergraduates not being allowed to make subjective decisions is just plain silly," he says. "How else do they expect us to gain this kind of experience...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell and Douglas M. Pravda, S | Title: Should Undergraduates Grade Other Students? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Albert Belle's narrow loss to Boston's Mo Vaughn in the AL MVP voting gained the Indians outfielder no sympathy from the Cleveland Plain Dealer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLLS | 11/18/1995 | See Source »

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