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Heading into the final weekend of the pro football season, the playoff picture is anything but clear. Four of the twelve spots are still open, and ten teams are competing for them. The lucky eight who have qualified are: Pitssburgh, Green Bay, San Francisco, Dallas, Philadelphia and Detroit in the NFC; and Buffalo and Kansas City in the AFC. The key games are in the AFC, with Seattle (8-7) at Kansas City (11-2), Denver (7-8) at Oakland (8-7), and Miami (8-7) at St. Louis. In the NFC, three teams are in the hunt...
...taste? Miuccia Prada, now 46, grew up in the world of couture, learning about fine fabrics from her mother and wearing Saint Laurent as a teenager. The playoff between the trappings of elegance and industrial streamlining is Prada's signature. Her first designs back in 1979 were backpacks and tote bags cut along classic lines but made of tough nylon used by the Italian army. They are now the '90s equivalent of Louis Vuitton initials. Prada says she was drawn to designing by her overwhelming fascination with clothes and textiles (she still has every outfit she ever bought and lifts...
Radcliffe's first playoff match will begin on tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. on the fields behind the Stadium against Vermont. If the Black and White wins, it will face the winner of BC-Yale on Sunday afternoon...
...league championships--one just concluded between the Braves and the Reds and one still in progress between the Mariners and Indians--feature the four teams that would have faced each other in the league championships of the old playoff format as well...
...what's more, in the course of eliminating the four "extra" teams from the revised playoff system, fans were treated to some of the more inspiring performances of the season...