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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Boston Garden holds about 14,500 people when filled to capacity, but 20 minutes into the Boston College--Northeastern game, I could almost count the number of non-ushers in the building on one hand. One thing about Boston hockey fans--they know a lemon when they see one. Number three in the nation against number five is one thing; the dregs of Hockey East sloshing through the Beanpot consolation game is another...
When Baird's problems became public, Washington was deluged by phone calls in democracy's latest undemocratic innovation, whereby senators count the lights on the Capitol switchboard to take the nation's pulse (no one has yet though to calculate the margin of error of this sophisticated new opinion polling technique...
WHEN THE SONG COP KILLER, BY RAPPER ICE-T'S group Body Count, brought the wrath of police -- not to mention Charlton Heston and Oliver North -- down on Warner Bros. Records and its parent company, Time Warner, the entertainment giant defended its artist's right to free expression. But it began taking a harder look at its albums, rejecting, for example, the work of the rapper Paris...
...they did not count on the harelike speed -- and less mercenary mind-set -- of Daniel Cohen. An ambitious French geneticist, he has jumped ahead of his American rivals and is close to completing the first map of the human genome...
...admit to knowing little about specific law school admission criteria, but I can say with reasonable confidence that there is not a preponderance of Asians in the field. I am pre-law, and I cannot count the number of times people have tried to dissuade me from attempting to become a lawyer. Do you, they asked, really want to spend the rest of your life fighting stereotypes about passive Asians to get your cases? Do you really want to be some law firm's token Asian? I have friends who were pre-law, but who shied away from a profession...