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Leave it to the Coen brothers to make a movie about a wise-cracking, pot-smoking, unemployed bowling enthusiast who goes to the grocery store in his bathrobe to write a check for 69 cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Coen Brothers' Loopy Lebowski Is Rife With Memorable Characters | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...only went up there with a handful of guys, and you can't expect much team-wise when you bring a handful of guys," Ciollo said. "It just turns into an individual track meet when everyone is just concentrating on his own race. You had to be really individually motivated running apart from your team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Track Breaks Records At ECACs; Men Struggle | 3/10/1998 | See Source »

...uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there was yet time; in the twelve-year Buddhist lunar cycle, 1968 is a grimly inauspicious year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1960-1973 Revolution | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...point in relations between Clinton and the media, McCurry made it clear that he did not want scandal to be part of his portfolio. Through Whitewater and Donorgate, McCurry was able to shovel those questions to the counsel's office. But even while savvy, media-wise lawyers such as Mark Fabiani and his replacement Lanny Davis took the calls from investigative reporters, McCurry had to wage a vigorous internal campaign for openness. "What Mike McCurry has stood for is that if you give reporters all the facts up front, even before they ask for them, you stand a better chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught In The Town's Most Thankless Job | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...They have a lot of depth and a much longer bench than we do," Stone said. "But if we can have a good showing goal-tending-wise and keep ourselves close, anything can happen. I am really looking forward to it and I think our kids are well prepared...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Do or Die in Durham | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

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