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...During the last three weeks our play has really improved," Benson said. "I think we played as well this weekend as we've played all year. No one quit, no one gave up the whole season. Our only disappointment was losing to Brown--I really think we outplayed them...

Author: By Katherine E. Wagner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Season Ends Valiently for Water Polo | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...saying it had forced Americans "to look at sexual orientation in a more open light." The Christian Coalition immediately responded by saying Gore was "way out of the mainstream." Meanwhile, the dominance of the gay theme seems to have created friction between ABC and DeGeneres. She publicly threatened to quit the show, which has had solid ratings, after the network ran a parental advisory before a recent episode in which Ellen jokingly kissed a straight female friend. In a future show, Ellen and a woman go into a bedroom; ABC at first forbade that but is said to have relented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ELLEN DEGENERES: YEP, SHE'S STILL GAY | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...good things is that we did not roll over and quit after the seven-point deficit where earlier in the season we would have," Benson said...

Author: By Kelly M. Gushue, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Queens Crowns Men's Water Polo | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

...resigned from a newspaper when her editors would not allow her to cover the same foreign beat as her journalist husband, and has just left another paper after being "emotionally battered" by her boss. In a variety of corporations Marilyn Wilt "encountered the glass ceiling again and again" and quit the business world to "empower" herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADCLIFFE '67: THE WAY WE ARE | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

Reluctantly you return to choice one and quit. You are officially a loser as you watch your paper disappear from the screen. Of course, in your haste you had not saved it. And you call yourself a Harvard student...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Paper Lost? Tricks For Recovery | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

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