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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, however, hasn't been as bad for the University as some people suppose. Harvard's math team, chess team, bridge team and on-topic debate team placed first in the country against formidable opposition. Put bluntly, we kicked some intellectual butt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Crimson | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...networks are pushing the boundaries of language and subject matter more aggressively too. Uncle Buck, a CBS sitcom based on the John Candy movie, has already drawn fire for filling the mouths of its onscreen tykes with raunchy put-downs like "you suck" and "freckle butt." In the first episode of Cop Rock, the topic of urination is discussed no fewer than three times. ("I gotta pee," pleads a reluctant witness during a rough police interrogation.) CBS's The Trials of Rosie O'Neill, starring Sharon Gless as an attorney with midlife problems, features the season's most attention-grabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Novelty Is Only Skin Deep | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...young sergeant is lying prone in the sand, the butt of his M-16 rifle tucked against his shoulder. It is late afternoon in the Saudi Arabian desert. The sergeant's squad is manning a defensive line while several officers scout the top of a nearby hill. The officers are deciding where to position antitank weapons that could turn the road below into a shooting gallery if an Iraqi armored column moves along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: In The Heat of the Desert | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...Election Day Pauley had her first TV job: as a reporter at WISH-TV, the Indianapolis CBS affiliate. She specialized in farm stories, anchored a Saturday-night newscast, and found herself the butt of jokes by a local radio personality named David Letterman. After three years at the station, she caught the eye of executives at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, who were looking for someone to co-anchor the evening news. A few days after her audition, Pauley got a call from the station's news director, offering her the job and a salary more than triple what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE PAULEY: Surviving Nicely, Thanks | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...followed the fighters through mined fields, running like crazy, and was in the first wave that captured the enemy post. He and a friend came upon three soldiers scrambling down a hill. His friend shot one. Mohammad Anwar shot the other two, thumping the bodies with his rifle butt to make sure they were dead, then calmly removing a revolver from the first corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan When Allah Beckons | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

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