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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want to seem like a whiner or anything, but this isn't terribly fun; it's certainly not the paradise it's cracked up to be. Of course, there are occasions when the team does do other activities like going to the beach or going to a luau...

Author: By Timothy M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Favorite Martin | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

This comes after Pippen told ESPN that Barkley was "fat" and "selfish." Considering Barkley had a better year than Pippen, what does that make Scottie? How about "lazy" and "a quitter" and "a whiner" and, most of all, "overrated" and "overpaid...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...virtually alone in her will to fight. "I don't think there was a person in the White House who gave him a snowball's chance in hell, except Hillary," says a former official. "Neither one of them is a quitter. He's a sniveler and a whiner, but when push comes to shove, he's got a backbone of steel--exceeded only by hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: The Better Half | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...lost most of his hearing when he was young, but who soldiered through the toughest science classes flawlessly by lip reading and compulsive study. (His hearing would later be restored after five reconstructive operations over 20 years.) And though Grove says he is a "whiner" when it comes to minor ailments, he is a man who coldly eyed a diagnosis of prostate cancer, researched the options and ignored his doctors' advice to pursue his own, so far successful, therapy. "Ruthless intellectual honesty" is the way friends describe Grove's strongest characteristic. Andy has another word for it: "Fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...National Whiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 8, 1997 | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

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