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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Knicks malaise, watching the NBA is an extended exercise in how long one's tolerance will hold out before snapping, an exercise everywhere shot through with impatience and bitterness. And as the league continues to look more and more like daytime drama, the expectations it has for its fans approach indolence and a wit slower than a Buck Williams drive...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Bring Back the Lockout! | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Tobin then proceeds to characterize abortion as a religious issue. For a long time, this approach has conveniently allowed supporters of abortion rights to dismiss undisputed biological facts about human development. Indeed, at the time of its abortion, each fetus is a human being with a unique genetic code...

Author: By Robert J. Ortiz, | Title: Abortion Question is Not Merely a Religious Debate | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

They're unlikely couple at best. Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00 owe their newly inaugurated reign over the Undergraduate Council to the votes of two very separate constituencies: the supporters of Seton's student services approach and those drawn to Redmond's card-carrying liberal credentials...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Left Meets Right | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...Administration has spent $5 million on the homeless over the past six years--triple what was spent from 1987 to 1993. Most of the funding has gone into "continuum of care" programs that provide temporary housing and a range of services, from mental-illness treatment to job training. The approach has had some success in getting the chronically homeless on their feet, but it unsettles some advocates, who believe that the key to ending homelessness is still to boost the supply of affordable housing. In New York, 80% of homeless families who have been provided with subsidized apartments have remained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Gone, but Forgotten? | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...wasn't as STUPID as the fuss in Washington," Buckwheat added. "David Howard, a white man just appointed as ombudsman for the new mayor, Anthony Williams, was talking to two staff members about the budget. He said that since funds were limited, he'd have to take a 'niggardly' approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other N Word | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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