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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After a clean win and a short rest, the Crimson returned Sunday morning looking for an upset that...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Falls to Baylor in NCAA Second Round | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania program is not just justified, it is too timid. It seeks clean hands by paying third parties--the funeral homes--rather than giving cash directly to the relatives. Why not pay them directly? And why not $3,000 instead of $300? That might even address the rich/poor concern: after all, $3,000 is real money, even for bankers and lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, Let's Pay for Organs | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...about the performances or even really about the characters. It's about the whole scene, the blissful dream of the Star Wars experience. Lucas delivers on the visuals--he paints breathtaking vistas and wondrous creatures that prove he's got imagination to spare. It's a little too clean for my taste--part of the charm of the original series was that it made the long, long time ago seem just as grungily medieval as it was techno-cool--but it's still pretty darn impressive. Even while the film's big showpiece, a pod race of gladiator-like proportions...

Author: By By RAJESH Kottamasu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Pretty Good Bad Movie | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they'd have to clean it up and send it back." Hopefully sometime before NATO has to start dropping water balloons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans Take Fork Out of the Pork -- a Little | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

Sounds silly, but it was enough to get me to check my calendar each day. Once I'd had my fun, I started entering real appointments. I signed up for weekly classes at the gym for the next year. I scheduled the cleaning lady to come every two weeks. I even astonished my roommate by firing off an e-mail reminder to clean up for the cleaning lady. But then I had trouble. For two days, the website wouldn't come up on my Mac at work. One day my horoscope didn't show up, and another day the local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scheduling Snafu | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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