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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, when asked whether Harvard should impose quotas for the future, should this election result in a unbalanced group of marshals (all eight could be male), opinions were mixed. Some felt that the college would have the onus to step in to equalize the process, while others were in favor of simply letting the student body decide on the candidates...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Elect 16 Class Marshal Finalists | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Eight minutes into the extra period, Zotter took a pass in transition from freshman forward Joey Yenne. Penn's goalie, Katherine Hunt, came too far out of the net, allowing Zotter to pop the ball over her head off of the crossbar and into the back...

Author: By Brian J. Hayes and Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: W. Soccer Pulls out OT Win Over Penn, 2-1 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...once used has been replaced by gleaming new push buttons, but typically for China, the elevator operator has not been replaced. She still sits there, complete with a little one-foot-square desk and a bottle of green tea, carrying the nation's top Marxists up and down for eight hours a day. The pope has his office on the 13th floor. The ride takes several minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Reagan who emerges in Dutch is often of heroic dimension. But Morris is also acute and critical about the sometimes goofy, floating chimera who was President for eight years. Morris cites a former aide as saying that the President's attention span "would compare to that of a fruit fly." He tells the story of seeing President Reagan the morning after they had actually dined together at the Morris home: "Not only did he fail to mention our dinner, it was obvious from his smiling yet distant demeanor that he did not recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...youngest of eight children in an Irish immigrant family, Naughton, who is married, had achieved the kind of success and air of invincibility that have become common among highflyers in the dotcom world. "I'm glad I'm at the top of the food chain," he wrote in a 1997 article for Forbes ASAP. But in his ramblings as hotseattle, he was playing an even more dangerous game than he realized. According to the FBI, he was pursuing another 13-year-old girl in the same chatroom. She turned out to be an FBI agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cooling Off Hotseattle | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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