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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more goals were scored in the final two-and-a-half minutes of the second period--one by each team--but Harvard would get no closer...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Rally for Third-Place Finish in Wisconsin Holiday Tournament | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...Mavericks pulled within eight points midway through the second half but would get no closer. After guard Gabe Isaac buried a short baseline jumper with 9:30 to go in the game, Clemente responded with one of his two three-pointers with the shot clock about to expire. That started Harvard on an 11-2 run from which UTA never recovered...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Basketball Breaks Even Over Break | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...with death three times a year. Surely he must love this. "I worry about it the last month of the four. It's not logical, but it's very observable and real. When I enter the month of the test, my stress notches up. And then as I get closer, I get more nervous. And then when they draw the blood, it's unimaginable--a new level of anxiety starts, and it continues until I get my results back." The tests, so far, have yielded only one surprise: Andy Grove isn't bloodless after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Klein The Justice Department antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYBERTECH: THE BEST CYBERTECH OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...tough love came as the U.N. General Assembly meekly offered a biannual budget that, at $2.532 billion, is even lower than Republicans in Congress had demanded. Meanwhile, Jesse Helms is no closer to allowing payment of a cent of the $1.3 billion U.S. arrears. No wonder the Europeans got upset. This is what was known in the 1960s as "delinquent diplomacy." Back then it was much frowned on by Washington, who publicly lambasted the Soviets for practicing it. It's ironic they should now receive the same scolding themselves. How the mighty have fallen ? into debt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe to U.S. ? Pay Up! | 12/23/1997 | See Source »

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