Word: topness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there are the students who frantically pump iron at 1 a.m. in the house gym. And sing along to Motown hits of the 1960s at the top of their lungs. Many Harvard students, it seems, are as obsessive about Stairmasters as they are about Sartre...
...Huskies have lost just one starter from last year's team--forward Betsy Palecek, who averaged 15.7 ppg and 5.5 rpg. Furthermore, Northeastern still has the player who could wind up as the top Husky scorer in history...
...just three seasons, Tinsley has passed 1,600 points for her career, becoming only the second Husky player to do so. She could finish her career this year as the top scorer in Northeastern history if she passes Pam Green's school record...
...politics is something of an afterthought. "The strongest contender besides the Communists is a party that didn't exist until last month," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "More than anything, this election shows how easy it is in Russia, under the aegis of democratic institutions, to create a top-down pro-Kremlin party from scratch and then, with huge infusions of cash and a stunningly popular patriotic war in Chechnya, build it into a front-runner...
...When Yeltsin named Putin as his successor in August, the former KGB officer had a popularity rating of less than 1 percent. Now, Russian pollsters are saying, he's a shoo-in for next year's presidential election. But the Chechnya war that propelled him to the top could also drag him down. Russian public support for the campaign is premised on the fact of Russia's suffering minimal casualties. A videotape to back Western news reports of more than 100 Russian soldiers lying in the wreckage of a tank column ambushed in Grozny could seriously affect his poll ratings...