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...latest twist in one of the most enduring controversies in college sports, the NCAA today will seek to block the ruling while it prepares an appeal, Elsa Cole, NCAA general counsel, said yesterday. She expects a response on a request for a stay of the order "within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA To Fight SAT Ruling | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...Kosovo peace process may be like reheating a souffl? -- getting it to rise a second time can take a miracle. The White House hopes that U.N. ambassador-designate Richard Holbrooke is the master chef who can pull it off. Now in Belgrade, on Wednesday Holbrooke will try to arm-twist President Slobodan Milosevic into signing the troubled peace deal. "Milosevic is hanging tough," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "But the deal is ultimately in his interests, and that may lead him eventually to sign." That and Holbrooke's powers of persuasion: The U.S. envoy brandished the threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo Peace, Take 2 | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

This plot twist facilitates one of the more humorous scenes as a high-speed chase ensues between the O'Hara-Martin duo and the scientists. To escape the government agents, Martin shrinks the car so that it fits in the sewer. O'Hara, speeding away from a roto rooter, drives into somebody's toilet and suspense music fills the theater. The scene moves in slow motion: an extremely obese man opens the bathroom and slowly sits on the toilet. O'Hara and Martin turn their heads to each other, wearing the faces of horror at the realization that massive amounts...

Author: By Dan L. Vazquez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ...and THE WALT DISNEY. COMPANY. | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...pooh-pooh an "old-fashioned" waxen stick, they fail to realize the attributes which have made the small tubes so popular. With chap-et, no more sticky fingers or goopy bowls of sludge. No astronomical cosmetics bills. No stress of using a gendered product. Just pop the cap, twist and apply...

Author: By J. S. Paul, | Title: BALM-OFF: three critical perspectives | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...PLAYER] TONY TWIST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checking Account | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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