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...want results and Murphy has yet to deliver. What Murphy has delivered is a 1-7 record so far this season and a 4-6 one last year. His team's 0-5 Ivy record has it ingrained in or near the cellar of the Ancient Eight for the umpteenth consecutive season. No one expects miracles, but everyone expects the team to move forward and not back...

Author: By Matt Howitt, | Title: 'I'm Responsible' | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

...there thinking about this and again--for the umpteenth time--I realized an almost banal truth: that we now live in a single global civilization. The identity of this civilization does not lie merely in similar forms of dress, or similar drinks, or in the constant buzz of the same commercial music all around the world or even in international advertising. It lies in something deeper: thanks to the modern idea of constant progress, with its inherent expansionism, and to the rapid evolution of science that comes directly from it, our planet has, for the first time in the long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement 1995 | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

...Word and the incompatibility between my printer and my Powerbook 520c. But, as the Government Senior Honors Thesis Handbook so cheerily informs the reader, this is why thesisers are advised to start their printing the night before. I knew that. But I failed to do so. Why? For the umpteenth time in my life, I simply didn't have my act together...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: All Together Now? | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

...going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth time, Del Monaco charged down the aisle. ``Stop! Stop, stop, stop!'' he yelled. ``What are you doing? You look like you want to screw him. Stay away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERATIC ARTISTOCRACY | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...going left when she should have gone right, up the stairs when she belonged on the ground, picking a prop flower off cue. At the beginning of the glorious duet in which the heroine learns that Boccanegra is her father, she began playfully fingering his shirt. For the umpteenth time, Del Monaco charged down the aisle. "Stop! Stop, stop, stop!" he yelled. "What are you doing? You look like you want to screw him. Stay away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERATIC ARISTOCRACY | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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