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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pennsylvania (14-0 Ivy, 22-4 overall)--Best of the Best III. Then again, Best of the Best II is terrible. Come to think of it, the original Best of the Best is a bout as good as the six-week old Zesty Broccoli Tofu Stir-Fry HDS dishes up every now and then...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: The Bell Finally Tolls For the Tigers | 3/11/1993 | See Source »

...academy as a comfortable, clubby home to poets, and poetry as a "modestly upwardly mobile, middle class profession--not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology, but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia." With lines like these, is it any wonder the title essay caused such a stir...

Author: By Amanda Schaffer, | Title: The Heart of the Matter | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

...aware of her role as voice for that collective anguish. In all of these poems, Lorde uses that pain to create an emotional intensity that makes her stark lines cry out in anger. Despite the eloquence of the language and the almost hypnotising rhythm and minimal punctuation, the poems stir up a sense of defiance and even frightening hurt. Lines like "as, with a smile of pity and stealth,/ she buttered fresh scones/ for her guardian bones/ as they trampled him into the earth," which place violence next to seemingly harmless images, abound in these poems...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Lorde's Hypnotic Undersong | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

CHAOS THEORY LIKES TO THINK THAT THE BEATING OF A butterfly's wings, say, in central Mexico may, in the complex interactions of nature, eventually stir up a typhoon in the western Pacific. The Clinton presidency seemed determined in its first three weeks to validate chaos theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Reckoning | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Here's how it works you split the stadium into four equal sections, fill the stands any way you like, and send some skaters out on the ice to stir up some tension. It's a perfect equation--thousands of college students go into a frenzy over the old home team, then crowd onto a Green Line trolley toward a night of revelry, no matter who wins...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Bleak Seats at the Garden | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

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