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They scored 1609.5 points, captured 11 out of 21 first-place finishes, and claimed their fourth Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving title in a row. They swam in three days of grueling competition for six hours a day. And somehow they made it look easy...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Rolls to Fourth Straight Title | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...some point Harvard got tired of playing catch. It now boasts seven of the last eight championship titles and this weekend's victory makes it four in a row...

Author: By Christine Haggerty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Rolls to Fourth Straight Title | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

Whites joined blacks outside the courthouse to applaud the verdict. Some onlookers shouted "Bye-bye!" and "Rot in hell!" as King was led off to death row. "I hate to say people were happy, but they were," says Jasper Chamber of Commerce president Diane Domenech, who is white. "I feel like we stood together, black and white, and everyone's just as happy as the next one at what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texas: A Life For A Life | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...race skews any discussion of capital punishment in America. Arguments against the death penalty focus on the disproportionate number of blacks on death row. What does Jasper give us? Something astonishing: the spectacle of a vicious white sent to death row--for killing a black man. Hence the high-fives among blacks outside the courthouse. The natural jubilation is philosophically inconsistent, of course. It is difficult to argue that whites should be executed but blacks should not. What celebrating blacks really mean is something simpler: it's about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something We Cannot Accept | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...smear annually, starting at 18 or whenever they first have sex. (More than 90% of cervical cancers are caused by a common virus that is sexually transmitted, although only a fraction of infected women develop the malignancy.) If you have normal tests three years in a row, you may, at your doctor's discretion, begin having them less frequently. But don't be fooled into thinking you no longer need a Pap smear after menopause. As long as you have a cervix, you need to get tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire Both Barrels | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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