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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Guard Mike Shreve, All-Ivy First Team last season, was one of the more outwardly exuberant of the lot--"We've got tons of time to booze it!" he informed his former teammates as they sweated on the turf...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Guard Mike Shreve, All-Ivy First Team last season, was one of the more outwardly exuberant of the lot--"We've got tons of time to booze it!" he informed his former teammates as they sweated on the turf...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Spring Game Last Fling For Seniors | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...Suburban mania coincided with the swell in popularity of the game of golf--and what a swell game golf is! The development of golf and of the turf covering the courses where it is played (which the government has donated millions of dollars to help improve), go hand in hand. In 1897, a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, linked closely with the U.S. Golf Association, wrote the following influential words: "Nothing is more beautiful than a well-kept lawn . . . Lawns are the most fascinating and delightful features in landscape gardening, and there is nothing which more strongly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...Suburban mania coincided with the swell in popularity of the game of golf--and what a swell game golf is! The development of golf and of the turf covering the courses where it is played (which the government has donated millions of dollars to help improve), go hand in hand. In 1897, a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, linked closely with the U.S. Golf Association, wrote the following influential words: "Nothing is more beautiful than a well-kept lawn . . . Lawns are the most fascinating and delightful features in landscape gardening, and there is nothing which more strongly...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: The Dirt Beneath the Grass: The Yard's Elite Roots Uncovered | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...there more to McCain than his plainspoken realism in foreign affairs? To become the natural alternative to Bush, McCain will have to compete on domestic turf, and here his favorite issues have earned him more bruises than badges of honor. He's known mostly for his unsuccessful efforts to reform the nation's campaign-finance laws and to curtail teenage smoking, both of which infuriated party leaders and rankled many of McCain's colleagues. And the Senator's long battle against pork-barrel spending has earned him few friends on Capitol Hill. "I don't believe I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The McCain Moment | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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