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...championship team, as John Wooden has often said, is its ability to respond to adverse conditions. So too with this squash team. Bruenner, down 2-0 in games, swept the next three to take the win in the best of five contest. Kaplan, down 1-0 in games, like wise came back...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: M. Squash Garners Two Over Weekend | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...industry and other corporate interests. The money saved would be used for deficit reduction, welfare reform, family tax relief, and highway and other infrastructure improvements. Al From, president of the DLC, released the plan today at the 10th anniversary of the group, which Clinton once led. It's a wise political and practical move by the Democrats to define themselves as clearly different from the Gingrich crowd, according to TIME political writer Michael Kramer. "Newt's free ride in the world of big think ends this week, " Kramer writes in this week's issue of TIME. But will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS . . . AN ALTERNATIVE CONTRACT FOR VOTES | 12/5/1994 | See Source »

...publishing sleeper of 1993 proved to be, rather surprisingly, a , translation from the Danish. Peter Hoeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow enchanted reviewers and book buyers alike with its suspense -- a wise woman detective tries to track down a child's murderer -- and its eerie rendering of the landscapes and atmosphere of Greenland. This intense but accessible philosophical thriller spurred considerable interest in what Hoeg, 37, would do for an encore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Chaos Theory | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...becomes clear to Peter and Katarina, and perhaps to August, although it is hard to tell, given his autistic demeanor, that their condition as castoffs, as people on the borderline of normal, makes them particularly wise, so they must fight the mentors who "could single out those who were on the borderline, who could not finish the tests on time, and help them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Chaos Theory | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...most thoughtful and fair-minded people with whom I have had the privilege to work," Rudenstine said in a statement yesterday. "Harvard has benefited from his excellent judgment and wise council in innumerable ways...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Slichter to Leave Governing Board | 11/18/1994 | See Source »

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