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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilford tried to throw a bomb down the left sideline but overthrew his receiver by a mile. It was a fairly low-percentage play, as the Brown secondary had the Harvard receivers outnumbered...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bears Mar Football's Chances | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Boston Globe dropped a bomb with its front-page article Friday, "Harvard heeds the call of hungry students," which announced the College's decision to create a "fourth meal" at around midnight...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fourth Meal Possible in the Distant Future | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Military experts are split on the effectiveness of this kind of wait-and-bomb war. Retired General Merrill McPeak, Air Force Chief of Staff during the Gulf War, believes it represents the prototypical 21st century conflict, in which a grinding, persistent battle plan trumps a short, intense war. "The bombing isn't hurting us, and it is hurting Saddam," he says. But Richard Haas, who helped run the Gulf War as a key member of the Bush Administration's national-security team, says a superpower's might evaporates as such a stalemate drags on. "When a great power acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firing Blanks | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...made a loud booming sound," said Kristin R. Hoelting '03. "It sounded like dynamite exploding. I thought there might have been a bomb or something...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fire Consumes Shuttle Bus Near Annenberg Hall | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...agree, you haven't been reading the strip as religiously as you should (there's no excuse--it appears daily in the pages of this newspaper), or perhaps you find its relentlessly liberal bent tough to swallow. It's true that Gingrich was immortalized as a ticking bomb icon, Dan Quayle as a feather and Phil Gramm as a producer of low-budget porn flicks (wait, that last one was fact, not cartoon fiction). Republican presidents, in particular Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush, have been subject to cuttingly funny mockery...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Notes From Walden Puddle | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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