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...stakes could not be any higher. Harvard has already fallen on the wrong side of the line which has divided the ECAC into haves and have-nots, top six and bottom six, every March since the league implemented its current playoff structure four years ago. The top six play next on Friday in the ECAC quarterfinals; everyone else either plays tonight or wishes they were still around...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Trial by Tuesday | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...China," which has been so damaging to foreign assessments of China's development. Such historians have looked for the deeper rhythms of economic growth and change, territorial expansion, developments in the arts, and environmental factors as examples of what we should be studying instead. Nonetheless dynasties have risen and fallen across well over three millenniums, and it is not completely absurd to depict the People's Republic as the latest manifestation of this historical phenomenon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENG XIAOPING AS PAST AND PROLOGUE | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...conventional measures of Wall Street, the market seems ripe for a setback. Not only are stocks heavily overpriced in relation to corporate earnings--the P/E ratio is now about 19--but the average dividend yield, which measures dividends as a percentage of prices, has fallen to an all-time low of less than 2%. Both gauges suggest the type of heedless buying that often precedes a bust. The public's hunger for shares has led Austin Grill, a chain of Tex-Mex eateries in the Washington area, to offer diners a helping of its new public offering along with their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS THE DOW TOO PUMPED? | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

...York State Attorney General Dennis M. Vacco yesterday after the conviction of nurse's aide John Horace in Rochester on charges of raping a 29-year-old female patient of Horace's who had fallen into a coma after a car crash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 3/1/1997 | See Source »

Giuliani won on a platform stressing that he could eradicate crime in the city, then considered to be spiraling out of control. Since he became mayor, crime in white middle-class neighborhoods has fallen. Unfortunately, I live in a weak working-class-to-poor neighborhood comprised mostly of Caribbean immigrants. Since Giuliani's take over, we have not seen the decrease in crime promised; instead, we have seen an increase...

Author: By Joshua D. Bloodworth, | Title: A More Perfect Union | 2/27/1997 | See Source »

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