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Before there was Penn, there was Dartmouth: the Big Green had won three league championships in a row before last season. The sudden loss of prestige attending the team's close 10-6 opening-season loss to the Quakers has Hanoverites hungry for revenge, but don't bet on it. The team lost several key players and will have a tough time fending off Cornell for the number-two position...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: The beginning of an era | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...retired service manager with Pitney Bowes. Jim Holian, 55, a gunstock manufacturer, grumbled that "instead of paying for kids to play basketball at 2 a.m., we should be building more prisons." Friends nodded furiously as Holian lambasted Clinton over the din of 500 shooters standing in a row 1.5 miles long and blasting away, part of a 10-day-long ritual slaughter of 4.5 million clay pigeons. The only thing thicker than the gunpowder that laced the air was the cynicism directed toward both Clinton and Congress. Said Bob Walden, 52, a retired supervisor: "It's not that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anger From the Grass Roots | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...second day in a row, moderates lobbed eleventh-hour health-care bills onto the floor of Congress, undermining the proposal that has the support of President Clinton. Even as the President sent members of his Cabinet to Capitol Hill to shore up support for Senate majority leader George Mitchell's bill, centrist Senators announced plans to introduce a stripped-down, bipartisan bill that would not increase taxes or require that employers pay for workers' insurance. Just yesterday a group of House members introduced an even milder bill that would leave 26 million people uninsured. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEALTH REFORM . . . MORE FROM THE MIDDLE | 8/12/1994 | See Source »

...then, apparently, he changed his mind. Around 7 a.m. on Friday, the Pensacola police caught him planting a row of little crosses on the grounds of the Ladies Clinic and demanded that he remove them; he complied. At 7:30, after receiving a distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avenging the Unborn | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

Following weeks of impasse, House and Senate conferees finally settled their differences and agreed on a $30 billion crime bill. The compromise measure maintains a controversial ban on 19 assault weapons but drops an equally controversial provision that would have allowed death-row inmates to challenge their sentence on the basis of race discrimination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 24-30 | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

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