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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranked Crimson (12-0 overall, 5-0 Ivy) made quick work of the hapless Big Red (6-5, 1-4), 13-1, en route to its second consecutive victory against an Ivy League opponent. Like Brown, Cornell was over-powered, outmanned, outplayed...and completely outclassed...

Author: By Christopher Sanzone, | Title: Top-Ranked Laxwomen Demolish Cornell | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...please don't send me a box of corndogs for my birthday. They will spoil en route...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: In Defense of Iowa | 4/25/1990 | See Source »

Harvard, however, could manage only five singles off Penn starter Craig Connolly, who did not yield a walk while striking out nine en route to a complete game shutout...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: Batsmen Swept in Doubleheader | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...Department is afraid of unevenly taxing its faculty as student interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unnecessarily Exclusive | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...En route the trekkers were outnumbered by hostile Zulu warriors, but spears were no match for cannons. Any hope for reconciliation vanished when diamonds and gold were found in the interior. The discovery, says Sparks, produced "the watershed event in South African history. Overnight it turned a pastoral country into an industrial one, sucking country folk into the city and changing their lives." By-products of the mines included pass laws; "native" compounds that separated workers from their families; escalating categories of black, colored and European; ruthless cartels; and the world's first concentration camps, built by Britain during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cries of The Beloved Country | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

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