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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...driven by the conviction that they must prove themselves superior snowball warriors. They constructed icy cores for better momentum. They recruited strong-armed friends from the baseball team. They actually organized themselves into military-style formations in order to prosecute their attack. I am not ashamed to admit that on that chilled night, my unprepared friends and I were utterly vanquished. Our supply lines must have been too long...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: On Guard | 2/26/1997 | See Source »

...they are indispensable to us; if money is the issue that is really worrying the administration (it spends roughly $156,000 per year on energy for halogens), then we sincerely hope that it will reconsider, provide better lighting in the dorm rooms, or at least have the guts to admit its motivations. As it stands now, we do not think that the potential hazard of halogens outweighs their outstanding and necessary benefit. Let there it be light, it was said, and there was light. Let there be halogens, we say, and there will be halogens...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Let There be Halogens | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

Sources in the Federal Government admit that Howe was a paid ATF informant in Elohim City from August 1994 until March 1995, but they say her 38 surreptitious tapes contained no evidence of a bombing conspiracy in the works. Only when she was debriefed two days after the bombing, government sources say, did she claim that Mahon and Strassmeir had discussed bombing government buildings. Agents familiar with the interview considered her answer speculative; in any case, she offered no additional details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE CITY ON A HILL | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...should at this point come clean and admit that Star Wars and I go way back. When I was four years old I had every single action figure, every ship, every model, every Burger King glass, and an authentic Darth Vader Halloween costume (in fact, the one glaring gap in my collection was the Imperial Walker from the Hoth segment of Empire Strikes Back--but I seem to have recovered). My relatives put themselves through unspeakable torments trying to locate the newest Star Wars toy or trinket, as they are wont to remind me, and my oldest friends still harangue...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Alive and Well | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

When the final clubs became independent from the college in December, 1984 (because clubs refused to follow the College's nondiscrimination policies and admit female members), the College also relinquished much of its power over the clubs...

Author: By Lisa N. Brennan-jobs, | Title: Epps' Letter Cites Growing Dangers In Final Clubs | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

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