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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't really matter what we'd be competing in. So long as we have something physical onto which we can stake our pride and genuinely believe we are in danger of losing it, students will come out in droves. It could be football, hockey or badminton. Or even a different sport every year...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: A Shot in the Arm for Harvard Sports | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

During the 31st minute of the first half, Northeastern sent a corner kick towards the front of the box. The ball precariously bounced around off a few players and past sophomore goaltender Mike Meagher. It struck virtually on the goal line when Steffa cleared it up out of immediate danger...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...problem with brinkmanship is you have to know where the brink is. Although it wants to keep its confrontation with Chechnya limited to air strikes, Moscow is in danger of lurching right back into the quagmire of three years ago. Russia rolled tanks up to the border Tuesday and bombed the rebel republic for the sixth consecutive day, as tens of thousands of refugees poured out of Chechnya. The Kremlin vowed to stamp out the Islamic rebels it holds responsible for a wave of terrorist bomb attacks on apartment buildings throughout Russia, and has accused the Chechen government of aiding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiptoeing to War in Chechnya | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

Whatever the ultimate consequences of population growth may be, it is important to remember the danger of treating statistics as mere numbers. Regardless of the millennial hoopla that Y6B will doubtless create, its cumulative environmental, economic, and humanitarian effects are what we can ill afford to forget...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: 6,000,000,001: A Population Odyssey | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...incoming storms, were becoming overbuilt. But when officials tried to put the brakes on development, they came up against some hard political realities. The fat revenue stream from condo towers, resorts and convention hotels made it very difficult to elect antigrowth politicians. Hurricanes were acknowledged to be a danger. But, says Charles Lee, senior vice president of the Florida Audubon Society, "instead of restrictions, you got engineering standards. And from that point on, there really wasn't any limit on growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Close Call | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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