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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, after a series of tragedies involving this widespread practice, the rules that govern the sport have had to change...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Wrestling Reaches a Crossroad | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...classmate John W. Turner '97 has expressed the issue as succinctly as anyone. His point is simple. A man who cannot govern himself should not govern a nation. A man who cannot distinguish between right and wrong should not be leading America...

Author: By Carlton F. W. larson, | Title: Monica, Montel And Me | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...fortunately do not face that choice. Tyranny does not threaten us. Our choice is more akin to "Live Free or Submit to Bureaucracy." Our expansive federal bureaucracy is inefficient, but worse than that, it is dishonorable and degrading. It tells Americans that they cannot govern themselves, that they must submit to the rule of others...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Gridiron Honor | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...understand the possible fate of a treaty that would govern the air, it helps to consider what happened to the treaty that would govern the oceans. That earlier pact is known as the Law of the Sea Treaty, but as far as the U.S. Senate is concerned, its fate and its initials are the same: LOST. Although more than 100 other nations have ratified it since 1982, the Law of the Sea Treaty languishes before the Foreign Relations Committee, along with almost 80 other international pacts covering everything from a nuclear-test ban to a boundary agreement between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT: A TREATY MEETS A SOUR CONGRESS | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...said he believes the Internet and those who govern it must deal with the many egregious violations of copyright law that currently exist...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Web Site of Recordings Draws Copyright Concerns | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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