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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everything in this matter that looks like defeat is in fact just the opposite," he says...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Charles R. Nesson `60 | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Fresh off the victory, Harvard entered the toughest stretch of games on its schedule. The team fought to close losses against top-20 teams from Boston College and Northeastern, but struggled in a 5-1 defeat to perennial powerhouse Princeton. The Tigers went on to win their fifth consecutive Ivy title with an undefeated league record and made its third straight Final Four appearance...

Author: By Meredith M. Bagley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Improves and Impresses | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...Gergen was selected by Gerald Ford to serve as the director of communications. After Ford's defeat in 1976, Gergen left politics for journalism, eventually becoming managing editor of the conservative American Enterprise Insititute's monthly magazine...

Author: By David Gergen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Presidential Speechwriter Gergen to Give Speech of His Own at HLS | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Despite its easy passage in the House of Representatives, 46 Faculty members sign a statement urging the defeat of the federal Mundt-Nixon bill, which would restrict the activities of communists. SEPTEMBER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1945-1949 IN REVIEW | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...carrier battle groups), no long-range strategic bombers (the U.S. has 174) and funds this stumbling juggernaut with a budget of 14 cents for every dollar the U.S. spends on defense. The P.L.A., says the Pentagon, is "still decades away from possessing a comprehensive capability to engage and defeat a modern adversary beyond China's boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Muscle: Birth Of A Superpower | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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