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Maybe they disagreed on taxes, land management, and government, but they loved the Braves. Everyone celebrated when Sid Bream slid home safely in Game 7 of the NLCS to send the Pirates back to Pittsburgh. My middle school even incorporated a "Braves spirit" theme day and canceled classes on the day of the Braves parade downtown, even though the parade took place after the Braves lost Game 7 of the World Series (due to Lonnie Smith's baserunning slip, I might...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Baseball, Exactly? | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Long before the world heard about Harvard's ambitious dream to raise $2.1 billion, Sid Knafel was helping pump up Harvard's "nucleus fund," the money the University needed to raise before it could go public with the campaign...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Knafel Wants Others To Imitate Him | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Although the Crimson can boast more depth than in previous years, replacing this senior class--Zimmerman, Tilghman, two-meter and defensive whiz Tom Chalberg and driver Sid Burke--will be a challenge, to say the least...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Water Polo Struggles Through Rollercoaster Year | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

There is a senior counterpart to Lance Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer to win the Tour de France bicycle championship this year. He is Sid Duckman, 80, who has traveled a long road of medical catastrophe: a 1 1/2-ft. section of his colon was removed in the early '80s because of cancer. A decade later, he underwent 35 radium treatments for prostate cancer. This summer his spleen and left kidney, also cancerous, were taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...decades earlier, Vilanch might have been writing for Caesar (Sid, not Julius). But by the late '70s, comedy-variety hours were giving way to knockoffs of Dean Martin celebrity roasts. "The people who had done variety TV, and were now without a form, found one. We all shifted over into awards pageants." And, for Vilanch, benefits: he is a tireless fun and fund raiser for AIDS research and other poignant causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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