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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keeping with realism in the movies, Snipes has taken to the big screen an idea he has expressed in real life. In a move that will probably ensure that he will never surpass Denzel's top spot in the hearts of black women across the country, Wesley Snipes aired what can only be described as generalized grievances he had about Black Women as a group. Though never specifically addressing them, he did his venting in a magazine that exclusively targets black women. Snipes says that he doesn't want to come home to a helpmate who would fight with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memo to Movieland: `Marshals' Hard to Digest | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...that point the amount of benefits needed will surpass the available funds and Americans will receive only seventy-five cents on every dollar that they had previously contributed to the fund, Apfel said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apfel Speaks on Social Security | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

Then, after years of training and outstanding performance enough to surpass any Olympic hopeful, the Day of Judgment arrives. The near-divine tribunal convenes, its members undisclosed, to deliberate upon your fate. (Here's where we imagine the doors of the Court of Star Chamber slamming shut.) Later, without any revelation of who these secret judges are, the announcement is made that you have been deemed unworthy. You are relocated to Kansas. Meanwhile, perhaps, another up-and-coming Man in Black has already been chosen for promotion in your place--someone just like you, except he's from Kansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tenure Odyssey | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

These events could be the turning point of the meet for Harvard as it tries to surpass Yale and close the gap between itself and the two frontrunners...

Author: By Tim M. Martin, | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

This weekend, Harvard will battle league rivals Brown and Yale on Friday and Saturday nights, respectively, at 6:00 p.m. Feaster should surpass the 2,000-point mark against the Elis on Saturday night...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Re-Writing the Record Books | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

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