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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...percentage of applicants admitted last week to the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of 2003 fell to 11.3 percent, its lowest level ever, admissions officials said...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Admits 2,055 to Class of 2003 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...State was disappointing, but for us the toughest stretch of this season is behind us," Majmudar said. "These teams are going to be a lot weaker, the highest ranked Ivy League team [besides Harvard] is around 70. It is going to be hard for us to keep up our level of play...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No. 16 M. Tennis Breaks Pepperdine Jinx | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...allies. Without a specific U.N. Security Council authorization, NATO is intervening in a civil war, a war of secession, to halt the cruelty with which it is being fought--especially by the Serbs. In the process, the allies run the risk that their attacks might increase the level of killing in Kosovo, drive the conflict into neighboring countries and make a negotiated peace less likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Yeltsin, who went ballistic on the phone for 45 minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend of the West Mikhail Gorbachev: "We are sliding toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...that I have ever read in a news publication. My book is based on discussions with more than 300 accomplished blacks from all fields and 100 important black institutions and organizations; therefore I find it odd that your review focused instead on my physical features. Your piece reflects the level of discomfort that many whites and some blacks feel when they discover that well-educated and well-to-do blacks have existed in the U.S. since the late 1800s. Your approach to black history (cover stories on hip-hop ghetto culture and attacks on me) perpetuates the notion that black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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