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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's tennis team had high hopes earlier this week, when it flew into Louisville, Ky. for the National Indoor Tennis Championships. Last year, an unranked Crimson squad knocked off three of collegiate tennis' big boys: fifth-ranked South Carolina, 14th-ranked Kentucky and 15th-ranked Arkansas...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: M. Tennis Beats #16 Pepperdine | 2/22/1991 | See Source »

...Iraq's foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, met with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow and was presented with what a Kremlin spokesperson described only as a "concrete plan" for settlement of the gulf crisis. Aziz then flew back to Iran, and from there he will head overland to Iraq today. The Soviets said they expected a swift response from Saddam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Update | 2/19/1991 | See Source »

...Allied planes flew about 2800 sorties yesterday in clear skies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Update | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

...State of the Union address, the millions of people tuning in saw a President who was finally projecting the vision that all the high-priced media handlers had been unable to supply for him. With images drawn from World War II, when as a young Navy pilot he flew 58 combat missions, Bush spoke convincingly of a cause that is just, moral and right; of the dangers of appeasement; of the need for sacrifice so that "the strong are neither tempted nor able to intimidate the weak." While he altered Churchill's "finest hour" to the rather less ringing "defining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of the Union: So Who's Minding The Store? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Despite that rather weighty academic challenge occupying much of his professional scrutiny, Layzer hardly confines his attention to his work. In fact, he seems to take equal enjoyment in listing his hobbies, which include playing violin in a chamber music ensemble and playing squash. Recently, he even flew to France to do some biking...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: David Layzer: Teaching Science Through Prose or Poetry, But Not Equations | 2/9/1991 | See Source »

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