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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-pointer with 3:23 left to play, to hold off a surging La Salle team and bring the score to 67-63. She also had a crucial rebound in the last minute to keep the ball out of the Explorers' hands...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Barbara Shop Quartet: Crimson Needs to Get Back to the Basics | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...racism is wrong and destructive. These are no longer liberal causes and it would be an undeserved insult to conservatism to suggest that they are. But there are still laws and policies to be made and cases to be tried--and thus discussion remains necessary. If liberals want to hold their own in these new levels of discussion, they have to keep a clear head...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: Career Liberals Should Clear Their Eyes | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

These issues will not be solved in Seattle. At most the Seattle meeting will agree to launch a new round of negotiations over many years to solve these issues in the future. We'll see in the next few days whether the world can hold itself to standards of fairness, efficiency and transparency --the high principles that underpin the WTO--or whether the melee on the streets will be mirrored in an ongoing melee among the world's governments...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Sachs, | Title: Sense and Nonsense in Seattle | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...world. The obvious question: why? How can a place that allegedly has prostitutes cavorting on the Strip, rednecks losing their family savings at the slot machines and streets burdened with violent crime attract your average vacationer? Because that, my friends, is an urban legend that had a hold on our imagination until about two years ago--and the myth has finally been exploded once and for all. (I credit every major news magazine that runs a "The New Las Vegas" story when they run out of Campaign 2000 fodder...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SOMAN'S IN THE [K]NOW | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi this week tried to extend an olive branch to the U.S. in a strongly worded denunciation of terrorism. What constitutional office does Ghaddafi hold in Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly News Quiz No. 4 | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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