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...most hated adversaries in a sweet romp, and the nucleus of the team was relatively young. There would be years and years to come where we would breeze through the league to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy again without competition in sight. Although looking back at the '90s, it is apparent that this was actually the case, a shrewd move by Knicks management in the summer of 1991 resulted in a heated rivalry that consumed most of the following decade in basketball...
...sits on the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni council and says he has continued to take an "active interest" in undergraduate education at Harvard, serving on the Overseers' visiting committee for the College since the early 90s...
...vote reaffirmed Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman's right to choose abortion in the first two trimesters of pregnancy. But they said the states had some leeway to regulate the procedure even before the fetus is viable, at around 24 weeks. In the mid '90s, the National Right to Life Committee and its allies zeroed in on an abortion method sometimes used in the late second trimester, labeled it partial birth, and began a highly successful campaign to focus attention on its gruesomeness...
Hugh P. Liebert can borrow my CD player, if he'd like (Column, April 26). Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, for instance, is not a swing revival band but owes more to the punk movement of the 80s and the ska of the 90s. The "similar bands" Liebert mentions are not at all similar, except in the fact that they are bands: Squirrel Nut Zippers are a ragtime/Dixieland effort, and the Brian Setzer Orchestra is a rockabilly throwback--all three often lumped together by neo-swing detractors. The Voodoo Daddies are a great choice for Springfest this year--enrollment in Literature...
Kenule (Ken) Beeson Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian man of letters, a newspaper columnist, novelist, poet and author of the television show Basi and Company, about a young man always in and out of trouble. But in the '90s, he quit his TV career to lead a campaign against oil drilling that was devastating the lands of his Ogoni tribe. His crusade was derailed when his movement was implicated in the killing of four pro-government chiefs. Despite global protests and his pleas of innocence, he was hanged for murder. But he is not forgotten, as shown by the sign...