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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gerhard Schroder is the latest edition to a growing collection of good-looking and affable political leaders of Western democratic nations. He defeated a 300-pound man, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who had spent 16 years in office, the longest period of single rule in Germany since Otto von Bismarck's reign over a century...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: The West's Wily World Leadership | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

...just wanted to pound it at them," Vena said. "We wanted to take it at them and see if they could stop...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Raiders Shine; Crimson Slow | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Last season the 6'0, 195-pound receiver caught 45 balls for 455 yards, and was involved in the offense in several ways, including a 62-yard reverse that accounted for one of his four touchdowns on the year. Patterson also completed one-of-two pass attempts for 34 yards...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Raiders Shine; Crimson Slow | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...always called them. But the XXXLs of the world have a message for us. It's still O.K. to call them fat, as long as you don't make fun of them. "We're fat! We're here! Get over it!" was the cry at the recent Million Pound March here, a celebration notable for the fact that nobody actually marched anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bulge And The Beautiful | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...couldn't help noticing that two words seemed to have been excised from the million-pound vocabulary: exercise and nutrition. Some of the liberated even insisted there was no conclusive evidence linking obesity with health problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bulge And The Beautiful | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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