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...would be really, really nice to ruin their perfect season, Donahoe said. "I sure as hell hope...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Soccer Ties Speedy Providence, 1-1 | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...segment of the population, final clubs have become the structure under which their social lives run. For these women, we want to offer alternative social events so that signing the petition doesn't ruin their social life at Harvard," Colligan said...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, | Title: WAC Holds First Social Event | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...according to Lyle, told him, "What I do with my son is my own business. Don't throw your life away. Stay out of it." Lyle interpreted that and some later remarks by his father, he said, as threats to kill his sons to prevent an exposure that would ruin his hoped-for political career (Jose nursed an ambition to become the first Cuban-born U.S. Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sons and Murderers | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...story is finally May's triumph, Ellen's rue, Newland's muted ruin. For him it is a tragedy, because he has been made aware of joys anticipated, delayed, crushed. Frequently he rewrites the tryst in his mind: one moment when Ellen might have caressed him, another when she could have turned around, smiled and changed his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Fellow in Old New York | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...partly from unconvincing accents and tatty wigs. The big problem is that MacNicol, normally deft and winsome, fails to muster charm. The plays see life through these men's eyes and effectively excuse their sins. MacNicol's romantic devastation in the opening piece suggests peevishness, not agony. His utter ruin in the second piece is so shallowly felt that it arouses far less sympathy than a traffic accident fleetingly glimpsed through a car window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juvenilia On Parade | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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