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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only thing that Saturday's games proved was that nothing has been resolved in the Ivy League. Penn and Cornell lead the pack, but have little margin for error with Brown, Yale and Harvard all waiting to capitalize on any slip up. Virtually every game from now until season's end will be league contest, and with five teams in the running and no clear-cut favorite, the race is still wide-open...

Author: By Jon B. Eirich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football's Ivy League Hopes Still Alive | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...account, now you can have up to seven. With 5.0, you can also create longer screen names (up to 16 alphanumeric characters), which means, of course, that there will be a scramble to sign up full names, like anitahamilton. (I opted for the hackerish unusablesignal--homage to the error message that the television in my office has displayed ever since I ripped the cable out of it and plugged it into my PC.) Another good thing: you can customize your welcome screen with a list of sites you most often visit. Also, users can now retrieve deleted e-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL: You've Got 5.0! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...event highlighted the killing of a girl supposedly killed for saying she believed in God, an event chronicled by her mother in a recent bestseller. After the authenticity of the incident was challenged, both by eyewitnesses and the formal investigation, the media took no responsibility for correcting their error...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Learning the Wrong Lesson | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

When Professor of Astronomy Alyssa Goodman received tenure this past summer, she jokingly credited it to a "clerical error." Nothing could be further from the truth...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...these preferences: when you ask these otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people why they support these candidates, they freely admit it's because they know nothing about what these men think. It seems they want to keep it that way, revel in their ignorance, and therein make a political error greater than the decision of one executive to indulge his sexual appetites in the Oval Office...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Why Gore and Bradley Must Debate | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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