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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with his elegant manner and profound literary insights. It is only when the Kittredges awake to find him sleeping with a male prostitute in the guest bedroom that his facade is shattered. Soon it becomes clear that Paul, whose real last name is never discovered, has played the same trick on several of their children's friends, and the aggrieved parties band together to find him and turn...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Degrees of Delight at the Ex | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

Quebec lit up Tampa Bay, 8-2, with a hat-trick by Uwe Krupp. The Rangers beat the Whalers, 5-2. Page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON DECK | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

Despite the loss to Princeton, Cornell rebounded the following night with a 4-2 victory over Yale. Jake Karam had a hat trick for the Big Red, earning the senior a spot on the ECAC Honor Roll...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Chaos Reigns Supreme in ECAC Playoff Picture | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...trick will be to keep up with the competition while maintaining universal delivery. That famous promise -- ``Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers . . . '' -- engraved on New York City's main post office has a more reassuring ring to a citizen whose new 100-megahertz multimedia PowerPC just crashed for the third time. By Suneel Ratan/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SNAIL MAIL STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...turning this essay into a play. But the adapter is having predictable problems. "I can write about her," he says. "That's perfectly straightforward. But I have to find a story that I can tell about myself. And revealing things about yourself is so difficult." It's an easy trick for the typical contemporary author; every sentence is an advertisement for himself. But Bennett is discreet-which these days amounts to literary heroism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BARD OF EMBARRASSMENT | 2/27/1995 | See Source »

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