Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critical point here it that it was precisely the homogeneity of the Gold Coast dorm--the-fact that the "Gold-Coasters" were a self-selected and elite group--that ultimately led to the establishment of Harvard's House system in the 1930's. When, by the 1990's, the Houses bore "too much character," or, what is another way of saying too much exclusivity, the Houses themselves became doomed to reformation through randomization...
Eight of Harvard's finest sailors flaunted their talents this weekend. At the Urn Regatta, held at the Harvard Sailing Center, the women's team finished sixth and qualified for the Atlantic Coast Championships, which will take place in two weeks at the Coast Guard Academy. Meanwhile, the co-ed team cruised to victory at the Shell Trophy Regatta, held down the river at the MIT course...
...qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championships, the Crimson needed to place in the top six of the 16 teams competing. Over the two-day, 14 race event, the women did not have their most consistent performance of the year, but nonetheless, they scrambled for sixth in total points and made...
...governor? That pivotal question is on the ballot in Wyoming today. In South Carolina, voters are being asked to decide whether to drop a ban on interracial marriage. And Californians, being Californians, will vote on whether it's still OK to barbecue horsemeat -- or even sell it. From coast to coast, U.S. voters in 16 states will be casting their ballots on a total of 61 sometimes important -- and sometimes just plain bizarre -- referendums...
MANAGUA, Nicaragua: Hurricane Mitch may have ratcheted up its casualty figures by faking out Central American authorities. "Mitch came from the east, which was where people prepared," says TIME reporter Lorraine Orlandi. "But most of the damage actually occurred on the west coast." The hurricane's behavior was also atypical: "People mostly prepared for hurricane-strength winds passing through," says Orlandi. "Nobody imagined that Mitch would stay in one place for almost a week and dump so much rain -- most of the deaths were caused by flooding and mud slides...