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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happens, a Harvard woman won the Hot Buns Contest at The Zoo this past week. This contest, (not so different from the other nights' wet t-shirt and bikini contests) entails getting on stage with several other women and showing most of your merchandise to a crowd of 300 or so; she who elicits the most grunts and yells, wins. There are male equivalents (though fewer of them) to these contests, such as the Hot Bod Contest. In sum, many students of both sexes, while away from their respective colleges, decide to "let loose" and party hardly in a most...

Author: By Daniel M.suleiman, | Title: The Spring Break Id | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

...must be very proud," I was told by an acquaintance I'll call Ariel, who grew up in San Francisco. My father would have described Ariel as weighing "65 lbs. soaking wet--with her galoshes on." In Kansas City she wouldn't be wide enough to be noticed. I am aware that Ariel probably doesn't think that having the fourth-highest percentage of overweight residents (after New Orleans; Norfolk, Virginia; and San Antonio, Texas) is something to boast about. I am aware that she would not understand the pride I heard in the voice of Arthur Bryant, the legendary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIDE OF THE PUDGY | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

JEREMY ANDERSON For scrawling his name in a sidewalk's wet concrete, the Las Vegas third-grader faces trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...idea of alcohol in Loker kind of makes [the administration] wet their pants," says Rudd W. Coffey...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, | Title: Is Harvard Anti-Social? | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

...walked to the beach on Sunday morning. The snow made a wide lateral strip at the top, and where it stopped, the sand, brown and wet, continued to the lip of the ocean. I suppose the tide washing ashore made that portion of the sand too warm and moist to sustain the covering of snow, so half the beach was snow and the other half sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONLY DISCONNECT | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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