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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Residents typically agreed that interHouse restrictions should be more strictly enforced. "The lines are ridiculous during rush hours," said one Adams House resident, Thomas C. Brown...

Author: By Erin D. Leib, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Adams Residents Protest Interhouse | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...interested in analyzing her "manly" style than her policies. Ally McBeal spends most of her time fretting over men and primping herself to look attractive, while male heroes of the Harrison Ford mold only have time to give their wives and girlfriends a peck on the check before they rush off to save the world...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Will Men Ever Stop? | 11/18/1998 | See Source »

...BOOZMAN, an eye surgeon and Republican contender for the Senate in Arkansas, claimed that a fear-driven adrenaline rush keeps rape victims from getting pregnant. Guess someone slept through a semester in med school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops! The Top Gaffes of Election '98 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

Technology is identified as the thing that kept him grounded and out of trouble. His descriptions almost deify computers and give them higher powers. Only when he lost interest in computers as a 12-year-old because he was in "a rush to get older," did his life take a crooked turn for the worse. An innocent cigarette addiction picked up while playing "Space Invaders" in his local arcade turns into a dangerous real-life video game where "points were gained by taking chances that others wouldn't. Doing drugs gained points; stealing gained points; blowing things up gained points...

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GROWING UP CYBER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...bumbling leader of this pathetic team is Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), who immediately befriends the confused Bobby. Once again, Bobby finds himself taunted and harrassed by the cruel athletes, but this time Coach Klein suggests that he should fight back. And does he ever. The years of repressed anger rush to the surface, as Bobby visualizes all those people that have hurt him in the past. The result is a leaping, bone-crushing tackle of his tormentor that makes William "The Refrigerator" Perry look like the Maytag refrigerator man. Coach Klein, sensing the geyser of anger that he could harness...

Author: By Christopher R. Blazejewski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WET & WILD with ADAM SANDLER | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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