Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory, Harvard's first-ever Sweet Sixteen success, sets up a nightmare matchup against top-ranked North Carolina, 13-time national champion, at Chapel Hill. The Tarheels (22-0-1), who field several of the nation's best young players, have beaten their first two tournament opponents by a combined 11-0. Wheaton remains upbeat, though...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, it will not be able to count on the same support on Saturday in Chapel Hill. But then again, if you're ready to pony up $5 to stand in an ice storm for three hours, why not spring for a plane ticket to North Carolina...
...benefitted from goals by Ivy League Player of the Year Naomi S. Miller '99 and Lindsay C. Minkus '98, stellar play by Ashley S. Berman '00 and the gritty goal-tending of Anne D. Browning '00. The Crimson will face its toughest challenge yet against No. 1 ranked North Carolina over Thanksgiving weekend. We can all hope that they don't give the Tarheels anything to be thankful...
When Clinton took office, the Democratic Party already had a centrist wing, and it looked like Martin Lancaster, Congressman from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lancaster spent his childhood on a tobacco farm and his adulthood in the naval reserves. In so doing, he embodied the two economic pillars of many rural districts throughout the South: agriculture and the military. In Congress he lovingly cared for eastern Carolina's Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. And he defended subsidies for tobacco, peanuts and hogs (one of the district's biggest exporters was called Carolina Oink Express...
...Eastern Carolina had one more export: conservative Democrats. It had been sending them to Washington since the Blue defeated the Gray, and Lancaster was no different. He backed the death penalty; he supported Star Wars; he voted to ban federal money for obscene art. But Lancaster also supported Clinton's tax increase in 1993 and his crime bill the year after, and in 1994 an upstart Republican bombarded the Carolina coast with pictures of Lancaster jogging with a President everyone despised. Lancaster and dozens of moderate Democrats like him went down to defeat. It was death by Clinton...