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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more profound crime dramas ever to hit a television screen. Lyrically bleak in tone, EZ Streets is a haunting meditation on moral ambiguity, on city politics and--most effectively--on fate. Alas, the dismally rated series was abruptly canceled after two airings. Alone, perhaps, we anxiously await its scheduled return next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE BEST TELEVISION OF 1996 | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

Like their counterparts, the women more than compare with Virginia and Villanova, but await a national challenge from Florida State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swim Teams Face National Competition | 12/5/1996 | See Source »

...eager to appear vigilant, disclosed a number of similar incidents at other bases. A drill sergeant at the Fort Leonard Wood training ground in Missouri pleaded guilty to charges of having consensual sex with three recruits and of trying to have sex with two other women, while two officers await court-martial and 10 other cases are pending there. An Air Force general revealed that over the past three years, eight male instructors have been disciplined for harassment at the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. And the San Antonio Express-News reported that at a medic school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDAL IN THE MILITARY | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Students say they walk through Harvard's gates first and foremost as representatives of their families and communities, instead of focusing only on the opportunities for personal advancement presented by the University. Commitment to those who await them marks their words...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HNAP: Linking Two Worlds | 11/13/1996 | See Source »

Some educators dismiss as simplistic and overdone the notion that girls eagerly await such "feminine" software as Barbie CD-ROMs. With homework, soccer practice and Girl Scout meetings already on their calendars, many girls don't lack for activities. And when they do try their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BARBIE BOOTS UP | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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