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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pennsylvania (1-1), the other Week One winner in the league, was less lucky in its attempt to stay unbeaten, as it was pounded by Villanova...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Brown, Cornell Stay Unbeaten in Ivy Week Two | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

Lehigh, ranked No. 12 in the AP Division I-AA poll, came into the game riding a 14-game winning streak and would not be denied in its attempt to continue...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard, Brown, Cornell Stay Unbeaten in Ivy Week Two | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

President Neil L. Rudenstine traveled in person last week to Capitol Hill and the White House in an attempt to save government funding to federal research agencies that sponsor university work...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine goes to bat in Washington to save funding | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

Waller's second interception came on another bomb attempt, this time to Michael Coleman. Just when it seemed he wouldn't turn around in time, Waller did and made the play at the Harvard 39-yard line...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Wilford Shows He Has Strong Legs, Too | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Mich.), House science committee chair JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R., Wis.), Senator JAMES INHOFE (R., Okla.) and others want to know is, Has Rubin been engaging in "threatening and harassing" telephone calls and e-mails to the residences of anti-sludge activists Helaine Shields, Jane Beswick and others? Did Rubin attempt to bribe a waste- treatment-company executive to get him to "refrain from raising concerns" about sludge transportation and stop insisting it be transported as hazardous waste? Has Rubin been distributing "selected, preliminary" risk data that appeared to discredit sludge-toxicity findings by EPA scientist David Lewis? The agency has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fight over Sludge Starts to Get Dirty | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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