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...mighty Harvard has fallen. After a six-year string of aces in U.S. News and World Report's annual issue about America's Best Colleges, it has slipped...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Harvard #3....As If! | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Players on the Harvard women's volleyball team know they can take control in 1996: win the Ivy League regular season, win the Ivy Tournament, end Princeton's string of two consecutive titles...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Spikers In the Hunt for an Ivy Title | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...mind resists reducing cosmogony to cartoons. On the other hand, what could be more in the spirit of Coyote and Road Runner than the Big Bang? Science instructs us that the universe is made of beer suds, or of string. Time bends like a pretzel and vanishes into a black hole. What if the universe is the hysterically funny work of a trickster-comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARS AS DIVINE CARTOON | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...makings of pop immortality: overnight stardom, singing Walkin' After Midnight on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts TV show; a string of pop and country hits (Crazy, She's Got You, I Fall to Pieces and the peerless heart crusher, Sweet Dreams); a rowdy domestic life; and the all-important early, violent death, in a plane crash when she was just 30. But Patsy Cline also had the goods: this woman could sing. Her bold contralto caught the pain and truth of a lyric without ever getting histrionic. "Oh, Lord," she famously said, "I sing just like I hurt inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: INCLINED TO BE JUST LIKE PATSY | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

...help in keeping Israel to the letter and spirit of the Palestinian autonomy accords which delay decisions on the ultimate status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip until Israeli and Palestinian negotiators reach a final agreement. Talks resumed today after being delayed since February 14th, when a string of Hamas suicide bombings delayed meetings until after the election which brought Netanyahu to power. "The timing of this request is very bad," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Why would the U.S jump into the Middle East before the November elections? It is foolhardy for Arafat to think that Bill Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying Another Country | 8/15/1996 | See Source »

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