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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that they are disdainful of the process. The rat-a-tat Bradley despises is what politics is. This is what it takes to run for President now." Bradley sometimes seems nostalgic for a politics that never was. American elections have always been pretty rough. The Thomas Jefferson-Aaron Burr battle of 1800 was a major slugfest, and during the 1956 Democratic primaries, Estes Kefauver accused the sainted Stevenson of Mob ties and racism. (Kefauver lost.) As a student of history, Bradley knows all that, but he's gambling that voters actually mean it this time when they say they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore in Your Face | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Over MP3s. Over the boy in section (kinda). Over mood swings and swing dancing. Totally over crummy paper (feel this crap!) E-mail. Halo (NYC). Over boyfriends. And name-dropping. We're over our theses (before they've even started). Extra-long twin beds. Tealuxe. Fellowships. E-anythings. Allston Burr Senior Tutors. Smoking. Anxiety-induced vomiting and dream sequences. Aaron has discovered the plain front; he's over pleats. Over the learner's permit. Cafe Pamplona? Pretty much over that. Over the affordable Audi TT. Over the hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train | 12/16/1999 | See Source »

Unfortunately for Burr, that hard work and athleticism won't return the Bears to the winning days of the early...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy Leagues: Women | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

...very hard-working team," said 12th-year coach Jean Marie Burr, the winningest coach in Brown history. "This is also one of the most athletic teams I've ever coached...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Around the Ivy Leagues: Women | 11/10/1999 | See Source »

Eliot House Alston Burr Senior Tutor Margaret Bruzelius '74 said she has been impressed by Mitchell and Frosgard's openness and their degree of personal involvement in House affairs...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Eight Yeras, Eliot Masters to Depart | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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