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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martins, of all Crimson players, had every reason to gloat. He killed penalties and sparked breakaways. Oh, he also had two goals, including a emotional one-on-one at 16:43 of the third...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Beanpot Champions, 4-2 | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...moment was brief; O'Brien is not one to gloat. It was hardly two years ago he was on the receiving end, that his team was the one being pummelled mercilessly like Mike Tyson going after Michael Spinks. BC's current reputation as a "power" isn't too old, remember. From 1988 to 1991, the Eagles won just five Big East games while losing 43. Its overall record was 31-56 in that span, and rumors of O'Brien's imminent departure were stirring...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Breaking Training | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

Afterwards, we'll gloat together...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Coach Restic, It's Your Call | 10/31/1992 | See Source »

...speech to the marchers, Mandela made it clear that the protest was not intended actually to topple the President but to press him into faster movement toward a multiracial interim government. "We have not come here to gloat," he said. "We are here to take South Africa along the road to peace and democracy." De Klerk said later he had been talking privately with the A.N.C. and was "confident that negotiations will be resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marching To Pretoria | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...tale of a nation of "zombies" waiting for change makes it hard to gloat over the fall of communism. What he found was a Cuba that still respects Fidel as a well-intentioned grandfather who tried to bring equal rights, education and health to the island but is now behind the times. Oppenheimer was exhaustive in his research, which spanned two years, including five months on the hermetic island. He interviewed 500 people, from Castro's own disaffected daughter Alina to Cuba's "yummies" (young upwardly mobile Marxists). Especially telling is the contrast between Che Guevara's eldest grandchild, Canek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Communist | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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