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...team, after winning the Region 1 championship for the second year in a row, the Crimson continued on until the national round of 16 where it fell to powerhouse Stanford. After the match, Fish admitted that although the Harvard program is superior in the East re?????gion and slowly inching towards national prominence, it remains a few steps behind the West Coast powers...

Author: By Karun F. Grossman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Tennis Eyes Top Spots in NCAAs | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...well-kept garden apartment in East Orange, N.J., is home to a woman who shook hands with the Queen of England at Centre Court in Wimbledon, a woman who was a queen herself, the reigning tennis champion twice in a row at Wimbledon and at the U.S. Open. But Althea Gibson has vanished from sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Althea Gibson: THE WOMAN WHO WAS SOMEBODY | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Although Princess Di used publicity for her causes, she often appealed to the press to give her and her family space to live. On a skiing trip with her two sons last year, she left a restaurant on the slopes to go along a row of photographers and ask them to give her sons some breathing room. All but one did, and he made a fortune for his exclusive pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCESS DIANA, 1961-1997: BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS? | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Wynne's death last week sent a tremor down L.S.U.'s fraternity row and set off a round of back-to-school soul searching about binge drinking on campuses all over the U.S. Just days before the incident, The Princeton Review had ranked L.S.U. as No. 10 in the nation on a list of "top party schools." L.S.U. officials protest that their school is no worse than many others, which underscores the larger issue. A Harvard survey of 18,000 undergraduates found that 44% said they had engaged in binge drinking--four to five drinks in a row...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE BINGE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Some colleges have decided that the most direct way to combat alcohol abuse is to ban consumption on campus entirely. In 1995, after finishing at the top of The Princeton Review's party-school rankings two years in a row, the University of Rhode Island banned alcohol at all campus social events. Combined with tougher penalties for violations and greater efforts to educate students about responsible drinking, U.R.I. administrators say the new policy has dramatically changed the culture of the school. "For a long time, this community was going through a period of denial," says vice president for student affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE BINGE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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