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...terms of placement, yesterday's finishes for freshman Brian Younger and senior Rich Beukema of the Harvard men's swimming team weren't exactly stellar...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Younger, Beukema Fall Short | 3/24/1995 | See Source »

Taking a break from writing another stellar paper at 3 o'clock in the morning, I descended into the tunnels to pathetically check my mail once again in hopes that someone loved me. Rebuked and moping my way back to my room, I stumbled upon an open door to the bakery...

Author: By Ethan Nasr, | Title: The Know on the Dough Below | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

Demarque and his fellow stellar astronomers make a good case. The life and death of stars is something the scientists think they understand pretty well. They know about the nuclear reactions that power starshine; they know about what chemical elements the stars contain, and in what proportions; and they have created detailed, accurate computer simulations of stellar life cycles. When they say 14 billion years, it probably pays to listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING UNIVERSE | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

Although the Harvard men's track team suffered a fourth place finish in Sunday's 48th Annual Heptagonal Championships at Cornell, many of the Crimson participants posted stellar individual performances...

Author: By Scott A. Martin, | Title: M. Track Takes 4th | 2/28/1995 | See Source »

...suits. By huffing and puffing, she got AT&T to sign a consent decree promising to keep the McCaw Cellular phone company a separate subsidiary, which allowed McCaw customers to pick their own long-distance carriers. But when Bingaman has actually gone to court, the results have not been stellar. Two months ago, she suffered a humiliating defeat after suing General Electric on charges it conspired with DeBeers of South Africa to fix industrial diamond prices. Before the companies had even presented their defense, a federal judge dismissed the case, complaining that the government's evidence was too weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PROMISES AND THE PERILS OF AN ANTITRUST CHIEF | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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