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...knocked out of the top spot simply because he got a low grade in physics at the wrong time. But the truth is that many schools don't have a strict grade average-rank correlation. There are many reasons for this--most schools don't want their champion basket weaver and gym student beating out their science genius to become valedictorian. Some schools weight honors courses more heavily. Other schools decide to emphasize part or all of the senior year more heavily, figuring that it will be the toughest...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: We're Not #1 | 7/19/1994 | See Source »

...Earl Weaver, the former Baltimore Orioles manager, was famous for an off- color vocabulary even a Hell's Angel might envy. When he was particularly upset with an unfavorable call, however, Weaver would stow the four-letter words and calmly ask the offending umpire, "Are you going to get any better, % or is this it?" The same question (and the identical implied answer) could be asked of Bill Clinton when it comes to the President's feeble and often feckless foreign policy. In fact, experts have been asking it for months, but "it's getting heavy now," concedes a senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Is It Time for Him to Go? | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...OTHER CLIENTS: Reps. William Gray, Dan Daniel Austin Murphy and James Weaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boys of Whitewater | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would-be rapist in the parking lot of a bar. In fact, we can't get enough of warrior-woman flicks: Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Linda Hamilton in Terminator II, Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct. These are ladies who wouldn't slice anything off, one suspected, unless they meant to put it straight into a Cuisinart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism Confronts Bobbittry | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...RANDY WEAVER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jul. 19, 1993 | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

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