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...week after the Horned Frogs (4-2) went winless at the Hurricane Frances Classic, which was thrown together by Miami (Ohio) after the Gator Invitational was cancelled due to that particular spawn of the tropics, TCU entered the first game of the New England Challenge looking for its first victory...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Splits To Open Season | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...with an erect military bearing and had a mind that worked with dazzling speed. At first, Hamilton and Jefferson socialized on easy terms, with little inkling that they were destined to become mortal foes. But their clash inside George Washington's first Cabinet proved so fierce that it would spawn the two-party system in America. It also produced two divergent visions of the country's future that divide Americans to the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Best Of Enemies | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...said that "Babes in Arms" is the quintessential Encores! musical. In part that's because the show's plot - a bunch of Long Island kids, the spawn of vaudevillians, decide to put on a big show in the barn - serves as inspiration for the bustling, two-week schedule of an Encores! revival. The breathless rehearsal-and-production pace guarantees that performers don't have time to worry their interpretations to death; they rely on skill and intuition. And it helps create an exccitement, an urgency, in the audience. If you happen to be out of town for five days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...writer, Eileen with dreams of musical stardom. The musical version, composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyricists Comden and Green, arrived on Broadway in 1953, with Rosalind Russell as Ruth and Edith Adams (later Ernie Kovacs' Edie Adams) as Eileen. The show, which lasted a year, didn't spawn the hits that Bernstein's "On the Town" and "West Side Story" did, but it has tremendous musical wit and urban dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

...more than 7.3 million copies in print and 59 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is much more than a mere publishing phenomenon. The controversial theories about Jesus' life woven into its plot have generated enough interest to spawn an information industry of sorts. Here's how some entrepreneurs are cashing in on the global Code craze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Code Rush | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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