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...seemingly harmless, softball-sized jellyfish propelled itself past me as I watched its movements carefully. Moments later, Dad hauled in his first prize of the day--a smallish sand trout. As he attached the fish to the stringer, I noticed that a few more jellyfish had begun to appear, of no consequence to me, to be sure...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Father, Son and the Firechicken | 9/23/1999 | See Source »

That seems to be the thinking in media-company headquarters these days, in a landscape where to stand alone is to stand in a hole. "The reason you're seeing so much anxiety everywhere else is that everyone else wishes they'd done it," says Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corp. of America, a record company and movie studio that still lacks a broadcast network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: A Media Giant Pops Up | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...evasive action, because the choppers weren?t carrying even defensive systems such as flares to distract heat-seeking missiles -- although it was only back at the base that we discovered how close we?d come to being hit. When I got back to the office, I learned that our stringer in Karachi had been taken to the area on a similar trip by the Pakistani military. So there was a reporter from TIME on the Pakistani side when we were fired on. As always, we?re covering both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in the India-Pakistan Crossfire | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

Mitchell is neither a $22 million man nor a third stringer, but the way his yoyo career has gone, it is almost impossible to get a bead on what exactly...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Barnum, Barry and A Three-Ring Circus | 9/23/1998 | See Source »

Harvard graduates only two players, Stringer and DiMarzio, and most of the returning players have seen both good and bad seasons. With Collins and Cowan both back to lead a team with one more year of experience under its belt, there is reason to believe that next season the ball actually could bounce Harvard...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Falls Into Fourth Place | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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