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...addition, Kiedel took third in the 500 freestyle, an event which Harvard swept. Junior Denis Sirrinhaus touched the wall a mere one hundredth of a second before sophomore Tim Martin could extend his hand...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Purdue Closely Topped M. Swimming, 152-146 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Perry was a familiar face in an opposing uniform. As he stepped authoritatively out of the pocket, confusion swept into...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: High School Memories Give Perry a Different Look | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...alongside his Politburo colleagues saluting passing missiles, made a TV appeal for an end to divisions, and then hurried off to Beijing for a meeting with leaders of ? uh, the Politburo. The only part of Lenin?s legacy still intact on the 80th anniversary is the date: The Bolsheviks swept away the Czar?s 10-month Georgian calendar, commemorating their ?Great October Socialist Revolution? on November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communism's Tired Specter Takes a Stroll | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Four years later in 1993, Republicans swept all three positions and led the oracles to warn of rough waters ahead for the new Democratic President and his fellow Democrats. The failure of Clinton's health care plan in 1995 and the subsequent GOP conquest of Capitol Hill in the mid-term elections seemed to verify this trend. But, it was also predicted that the victories of the moderate Rudolph Giuliani and Christine Todd Whitman would spur a rush back to the center for the Republican Party after their 1992 losses under the conservative banner. (If the infamous House Republicans...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: Mining for Meaning | 11/6/1997 | See Source »

...were problems with his other wives," she reflects, "but he told me I was special. He radiates an air of niceness. When my mom met him, she said he looked like Robert Redford." She adds, "He's a man with a temper who has punched holes in walls and swept the top of an attorney's desk clean with one swipe of his arm. My friends thought it was an unhealthy situation, but I thought I was going to live happily ever after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HEART AND A KIDNEY | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

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