Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard also featured some serious head-scratchers, like a Nov. 28 home loss to Lehigh (which finished 6-22) and a Dec. 11 road loss to Colgate, a middle-of-the-road Patriot League team...
...veteran of near disasters, Autissier claims she's never felt in serious danger. In fact, she was sleeping soundly when Soldini's hammer caromed off the hull of her boat. Still, she is well aware that lethal dangers are never far off. In these same southern Pacific waters in 1997, she broke off from another round-the-world race to search for a French-Canadian yachtsman who had been swamped by rough seas. He was never found. "We race boats, but we're not out to flirt with death," says Autissier. "If one of us doesn't come back...
...everybody was pretty irresistible," Boyle explains. "It gave the story added frisson." Nabbing this particular American for the lead also instantly added to the profile of the film, and to the cost of making it. Boyle had tentatively approached DiCaprio before Titanic came out, but by the time serious negotiations got going, the star's asking price had soared to $20 million, effectively doubling the film's budget...
...last championship-clinching basket, his trademark leaping and twisting shots--there was one element in Jordan's success that was overlooked. And it's one that we all can emulate. Through 13 seasons with the Chicago Bulls, six championships and five Most Valuable Player awards, Jordan suffered only one serious injury: a broken foot...
...that the United States will not suffer a meltdown of services, but there will be glitches. Some of the systems that could suffer minor disruptions include those involved in food and energy distribution, medical records and financial records. "The Senate report underscores the fact that the Y2K problem is serious," says TIME assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, "but it is not the end of the world...