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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though he tired Navy ROTC at Harvard, hedisliked the training. "I'm not a marcher," saysWilson. "All I could do was knock my hat off myhead with my rifle...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilson Reflects On His Novel | 6/2/1992 | See Source »

PowerAde makes only oblique reference to its primary target, Gatorade, in its commercials. But Pepsi will take the champ head on. Touting "gulpability" (achieved by using wide-necked bottles), All Sport ads will knock Gatorade by stressing that, in the words of a Pepsi spokesman, "there is no reason a sports drink can't taste good." The commercials will also contrast 1960s black-and-white sports scenes with contemporary color action to emphasize that "our drink was formulated a generation after theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thirst for Competition | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

Like any successful coach, Harvard's Carole Kleinfelder knows this well. Though her women's lacrosse team has had the luck (knock on wood) to coast through the season relatively injury-free, it enters the NCAA national Championships this weekend in Bethlehem, Penn. with a slightly more odious, unshakable monkey on its back: academics...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lax Heads to Promised Land: Final Four | 5/15/1992 | See Source »

Gentry and Leite also have to deal with pedestrians and motorists who often knock down and steal the cones they use to block the streets. "Kids knock the cones down and take them away all the time," said Gentry. "We easily have to buy 100 cones in a year...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, | Title: Artists of the Night | 5/6/1992 | See Source »

...California, New Mexico, Michigan, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee. And California and the South are already considered Perot's main strongholds among the white, middle-class, unhappy voters Bush needs. Sums up a senior adviser to the Bush campaign: "Ross Perot doesn't have to do well to knock Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Underestimate Perot | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

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