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Meanwhile, his rivals nervously shift their feet, twitch their fingers, rub gold crucifixes, amulets and talismans. Grace Craighead of Philadelphia quivers with stage fright. "I'm soooo nervous," she says. "This is my first tournament." Adrenaline is boiling, shoulders are hunched, fingers poised to punch the two keys that will spin the slot-machine wheels to winning numbers and bars, or losing spaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Chasing the Super Red Sevens | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...graduation last June. The Bulldogs lost two first-team All-Americas, record-setting midfielder Jon Reese and goaltender. Tony Guido, putting this year's squad's future into peril. The graduation of feeder Jason O'Neill and crease attackman Karl Wimer also removed some of Yale's offensive punch...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Slumping Laxmen Battle Yale Today | 4/27/1991 | See Source »

...Suetonius served as chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian and wrote a number of books that certainly sound like best sellers, most of them, unfortunately, now lost. Connoisseurs of the carnal particularly lament the disappearance of his Lives of Famous Whores. But The Twelve Caesars still packs plenty of punch per sesterce: Augustus as an elderly man, relentlessly deflowering virgins, some of them procured for him by his wife; Tiberius training young boys, whom he dubbed his "minnows," to nibble at him lasciviously during his swims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pssst! Have You Heard the One About Augustus? | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...Cambridge police officer stood outside the club's 45 Mt. Auburn St. door, but neither he nor anyone else appeared to check the identification of people entering the building. People emerging from the club carried beer bottles and alcohol-laden punch...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: The Pi Eta: | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...birth or because the left side of the brain sometimes doesn't know what the right side is doing, they suffer disproportionately from migraine headaches and stuttering. Since lefties also tend to be dyslectic, they are forever going right when they want to go left, transposing digits when they punch up phone numbers and, when writing words, getting their letters all mixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Being a Lefty | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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