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...Player-for-player both speed-wise and shooting-wise, both teams have a lot of close match-ups," Butler said. "It will come down to the fundamentals of executing the offense, rebounding hard and stepping it up on defense...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: W. Basketballers Out to Continue Winning Ways | 1/6/1995 | See Source »

When speaker-to-be Newt Gingrich announced that one of the priorities of the emerged Republican majority would be school prayer, wise men shook their heads; the G.O.P. was making the same mistake Bill Clinton had when he began his transition by pushing for gays in the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Us Pray | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...This is one of the largest, if not the largest recovery dollar-wise in the history of the department." Harvard Police Lt. John F. Rooney told The Crimson at the time...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Is Harvard Checking Employees' Records? | 12/17/1994 | See Source »

...Hillary Clinton and the White House are drawing another lesson from the health-care debacle: it is not wise to link the First Lady's prestige so directly to controversial policy issues. It shouldn't happen again. As a senior White House official explains it, the First Lady "will stay engaged and remain an influence, but ((her role)) will be more informal. She won't be a point person on a given policy." The difference in her role, stresses the official, is one of "approach" and not intensity. "She's not going to start talking through a veil," says Planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Once and Future Hillary | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...Well of Horniness, as the wise-cracking narrator puts it, is an exploration of the "septic tank of the soul." After this assertion there comes the loud sound of a toilet flushing, signaling the recklessly self-reflexive nature of this play. Practically every utterance is a sparkling one-liner, but the play juxtaposes the epigrams with other sly puns and double entendres so that the entire work is funny...

Author: By Marco M. Spino, | Title: Theater of The Absurd And Sexy Film Noir | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

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