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...despite a somber nine-for-21 performance against the Crimson, Tigers quarterback Chad Roghair continues to lead the nation in passing efficiency. He is now the 13th all-time yardage leader at Princeton...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Life Isn't All That Bad, Tosches | 10/31/1991 | See Source »

Every day, we come home from a long day of classes only to find a magazine with a picture of Mao or Europe on the cover. A fresh new publication like Jerk might add a little levity to Harvard's otherwise somber campus...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: OFA: A Real Jerk | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

...There's no doubt about it. We got beat," a somber Tosches said. "They ran the football. They established themselves on the ground...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Hirsh: Leaping Tall Buildings in Single Bounds | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...days of exhausting and exhaustive testimony would end, Hill would coolly and impassively detail the nature of Thomas' alleged harassment while she worked for him in government positions from 1981 to 1983. Words like "penis" and "breasts" and "pubic hair" would enter the public record repeatedly in so somber and untitillating a fashion that no one in the hearing room would blanch, let alone smirk or giggle. It was clear that the differences in the Hill and Thomas versions on what transpired a decade ago were not a simple matter of differing sensibilities -- oversqueamishness on her part vs. bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: She Said, He Said | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...York photographer Steven Meisel became instrumental in developing Evangelista's chameleon-like ability to reinvent herself constantly as a model. (Jose Fonseca, a partner of the British agency Models1, calls her "the Madonna of the modeling world.") For example, first Meisel shot her with a broad smile, then somber; each time she looked different. Result: some 60 magazine covers for Evangelista in the past three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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