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...Playoff experience is really important," Coach Katey Stone said. "When you know you are going to get back a few more weapons next year and hope to make the playoffs, your younger kids will not be so star-struck by the whole thing. They will be able to handle it with a lot of confidence...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Do or Die in Durham | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

That evening the White House got another assist, from a former stage-production teacher at Lewinsky's Beverly Hills high school named Andrew Bleiler, who revealed his affair with Lewinsky and cast her as a manipulative, star-struck home wrecker. A college schoolmate described her to a Swedish newspaper as a "notorious liar" and "a cheater." Penthouse, meanwhile, was offering Lewinsky $2 million to pose and tell her story; it all played nicely to what has been described as the "nuts and sluts" defense that would carefully paint Lewinsky as a less than reliable witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is a Battle --Hillary Clinton | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Hartley meets composer Robert Christian Gustafson in an elevator after a dismal job interview and falls instantly in love with him. Star-struck Hartley sees him as one of the city's "miraculous" people who can walk down any street in Manhattan and greet by name the street-cleaner, the woman at the corner grocery store and any number of vaguely familiar people in limousines. "I've been in New York for five whole years, going on a century," he explains. New York evidently also knows him: with silver eyelashes and gorgeous Nordic hair, Robert is New York's "Prettiest...

Author: By Jamie L. Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Poignant and Powerful Plays | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

More than 900 star-struck fans packed Sanders Theatre to hear actor and celebrity heartthrob Mel Gibson speak, but many left dissatisfied after listening to the Australian's flippant remarks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gibson Gives Offbeat Speech | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

...derail the council's highly promising new term. First, Tufts-envy has struck the council once again. In passing a resolution--by a margin of more than 3-to-1--to spend a ridiculous $15,000 on a concert, the council's eyes seem to be glazed over and star-struck by the possibility of hosting the rock band A Tribe Called Quest. (I've never heard of them.) Doesn't the council remember the aborted attempt and ensuing scandal of hosting the band Live in concert last year...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: A Tribe Called Council | 2/24/1996 | See Source »

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