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Like Tweety versus Sylvester, UConn repeatedly eluded Harvard in Wednesday's 3-1 loss.

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Edged By UConn, 3-1 | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

It was always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NASTY FAUSTIAN BARGAIN | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

TAMPA, Fla.: Fresh charges that the recently reinstated president of the National Baptist Convention misappropriated thousands of dollars in donations to black churches will probably not cause his ouster, says TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Sylvester Monroe. But now there's the possibility that the law will be his downfall. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baptist Leader Feels Heat Over Burnt-Churches Funds | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

His name is Freddy Heflin, and in Cop Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SLY'S NEXT MOVE | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

As for the victims, there is still a temptation to impute to them some original sin that attracted catastrophe, rather than the risks taken for friendship, helpfulness or simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only thing certain is that Cunanan wanted them to die. Cunanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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