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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These matches give us a bit of confidence," Broughton said. "VCU is ranked No. 20 and we played them close. Also for William and Mary and VCU, these were like their fifth matches of the year, while we were just getting started...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Opens Season with Losses | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...offense was tentative and a bit sloppy,"Sullivan said. "We weren't poised, we weren'tconfident in the team offensively. But it wasgreat to see us respond by making our freethrows...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: M. Hoopsters Officially Done | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

Summers, who was the youngest tenured professor in Harvard history, was every bit as much a rocket scientist as the economists at LTCM. But Greenspan says one of the keys to Summers' success in Washington is his ability to unlearn much of what he once taught. "Larry has one overriding virtue: he is very smart," Greenspan explained one afternoon last week, as a springlike day cooled into night outside his Washington office. "And unlike people who are smart and believe they are smart, he is open to the recognition that a lot of what he thinks is true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...weekends are mostly shot, Pooley says his job is "enormous fun because you have great reporters at your disposal in Washington, New York City and all the other bureaus. As a kid, I played war games where you deployed forces on multiple fronts. Being Nation editor is a bit like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

Maggie, starring Anne Cusack, is one of the rare TV depictions of a woman feeling trapped in her marriage at mid-life. Forty years old and and a bit bored with her cardiologist husband of 20 years, she goes to veterinary school and soon after begins to fall for another guy. Whether or not she will pursue him forms the show's narrative arc. Oh Baby gives us Cynthia Stevenson as a woman in her late 30s who, in the third year of a relationship with a guy who won't leave his toothbrush at her house, realizes she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Meet The Post-Ally Women | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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