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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather than playing with the confidence,leadership and bravado of players who know theyare the best, Harvard's skill positions playedfrustrated, scared, and afraid...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Ball Four | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...afraid that you have fewer American readers than you would if you didn't write in Scottish dialect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irvine Welsh | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Alleyne says she noticed different academicpressures on males when she was in high school.Black men can be accused of "acting white" orselling out. Some are genuinely afraid of losingtheir identity by going to a mostly whiteuniversity...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gender Gap Persists Among Black Students | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...college, or even if you aren't, don't let your vision be clouded by the piles of posters and hundreds of new faces. Ask yourself what you really want, take your time, hesitate before committing yourself to too many people or too many things, and don't be afraid to say no when you make a choice. Then, when you schlep the box with your Freshman Facebook in it out of your room one 1,000-degree day in June when you leave college for the last time, you'll look at that book and smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taking College by Degree | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...that I care anymore what she thinks. But I am starting to wonder. If an hour a week is too much, what's safe? Afraid to directly confront Sara Kiesler, one of the authors, I review her printed remarks on the university's website, where she artfully dodges the question. "Many people do things 'too much,'" she points out. "Eating quarts of ice cream at night, smoking three packs a day and sitting at the computer 10 hours at a time." I wait in vain for her to get to the too-much part. Later I screw up my courage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bummed Like Me | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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