Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perennial powerhouses, both Crimson teams have been dominating in the 1990s. The women captured the national championship each year from 1993 to 1997; the men have followed suit, taking home the honors from...
...sets of numbers were released Monday, each casting their own optimistic light on the citizenry and what one analyst called "the contagion of lawfulness." The first figures, from the FBI, show that serious crime plunged 10 percent in the first half of 1999, the largest drop in the 1990s. Those rates include rape, murder, aggravated assault and burglaries. And as if that's not enough to put a smile on Bill Bennett's face, new numbers from the private antidrug group Partnership for a Drug Free America show that drug use among teens aged 13 to 18 declined or leveled...
...1990s, all in all, have been a bit frustrating for Harvard football. Legendary long-time coach Joe Restic retired in 1993 with a winning percentage over .600, but his last winning season had been in 1987, and the program he turned over to former Cincinnati coach Tim Murphy was in need of revitalization. Murphy, who had succeeded at each of his previous two coaching jobs masterfully, had mediocre results in his first three seasons before putting it all together in 1997, the first season he coached an entire team he had selected in the recruiting process. The 1997 team went...
...Office for the Arts raised concern this year about the state of the black arts community, one tradition that especially stands out is the Black Literary Anthology, last seen in the early 1990s. BSA members are currently involved in reorganizing the publication. Apollo Night, the BSA-sponsored talent show, overwhelmed Lowell Lecture Hall this year. The Black Arts Festival is scheduled to continue...
...avoid using a particular terminology, The Crimson asked the students interviewed for this article to define their own racial background. But like the estimated 5 million Americans who in the mid-1990s identified themselves with more than one race, these students would all say they are multiracial...