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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Simpson, also IOP director, described Feingold as a "scrapper" and a "very thoughtful, steady, direct, persistent...

Author: By John P. Posch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sen. Feingold Fights for Finance Reform | 4/13/1999 | See Source »

Even before his 1985 marriage to Madonna (they divorced in 1989), Penn had a rep as a ferocious scrapper, a plague on all paparazzi, a reluctant and truculent interview subject. These days Penn, who turned 37 this week and who married Wright last year after a long, volatile, off-and-on relationship, replies thoughtfully to a reporter's probes. What about Hollywood's embrace of independent films? "I don't trust that any more than I trust a mother-in-law's love." Is he happy? "I'm not going to accuse myself of being happy; just saying that would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IN HIS PRIME | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...czar (and Republican presidential hopeful) Bill, has spent 35 of his 54 years in Washington. But he was shaped by blue-collar Brooklyn and nuns that made him toe the line ("If you did something wrong, they hit you"). He was a Flatbush Boys Club boxing champ, such a scrapper that his mother paid him a nickel for each day he didn't get into a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Superlawyer! | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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