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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Princeton again looks like the team to beat, as the Tigers are the favorite to win their third straight title, thanks to the return of super junior Amy McFarlane from a year off playing for the Canadian National team...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Field Hockey Faces Many Questions | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

They'll have to be. In the second game of the season, Harvard takes on its super-arch rival Brown, who defeated the Crimson 9-8 in the Eastern Championships qualifier after the teams split their previous two meetings...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Small Men's Water Polo Team Not Worried | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...Clinton--"the Monster," inspired by Clinton's temper. Morris told Rowlands that he calls Hillary "the Twister," because she stirs up trouble. In a notebook that Rowlands says is her diary of the affair, she recorded Morris telling her he also called Clinton "the blind man" because "he's super-intellagent [sic] but has no common sense or compassion." She reported that Morris liked to suck her toes, has a thing for women's feet generally and one night got down "like a dog" on all fours. At that point, she said, he asked, "Can you imagine someone walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVENTION '96: SKUNK AT THE FAMILY PICNIC | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

RELEASED. RICK JAMES, 44, grandmaster of funk (Super Freak); after serving two years and 23 days of a five-year sentence; in Folsom, California. In 1994 James was convicted of assaulting a woman, holding her hostage and giving her cocaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

Even his language is solitary: Dole gets ribbed for his speaking style, the guttural growls, the verbal wheat germ ("anti-dumping; level the playing field; Super Three; may not mean a lot to you, but it's important"), the unpopulated syntax ("Have to look into that. See what happens in committee. Gotta go"). Dole speaks a language all his own. It's Indo-Midwestern, rooted in a place where there's no extra credit for extra words, where humor is often truth's only reliable vehicle. Dole's vernacular of nods, grunts, snickers and shrugs can be as baffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUL OF DOLE | 8/19/1996 | See Source »

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