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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seton predicted Dunster will fill its five seats as the year progresses, through write-ins and votes for last-minute entry Chad A. Wathington...

Author: By Carol J. Garvan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dunster May Field No Council Candidates | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

Rather than definitively rejecting students for racial reasons, Nancy Walser suggests that schools set a period of time after which, if quotas are still not met, schools may fill their empty slots with students from the waiting list, without regard to their race...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge School Enrollment Declines | 9/29/1999 | See Source »

...organized crime, it?s inevitable that government officials ? including those at the Central Bank ? have a finger or two (or an arm, up to the shoulder) in the cookie jar. The Russians, say U.S. investigators, just want to find out where the U.S. paper trail is leading before they fill in any of the blanks. Said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vincent Cannistraro told USA Today: "They're trying to find out what it is we know before they play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surprise! Moscow Stonewalls on Laundering Probe | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Spied on You | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...numbers of minorities in its booming work force. All told, African Americans constitute only 7.2% of the nation's computer scientists; Hispanics, only 3.6%. Part of the reason, as Microsoft chairman Bill Gates can tell you, is that there are too few minorities with the education to fill those jobs. Gates and his wife Melinda addressed that problem last week, when they announced that their foundation will make the largest academic donation ever: $1 billion, which will be distributed over the next 20 years to pay the full tab each year for about 1,000 black, Hispanic, Native American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gives Big | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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