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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what happened to those lazy, listless baby busters who supposedly typified the new generation? Beavis and Butt-head were their icons; Beck's Loser was their song ("Savin' all your food stamps and burnin' down the trailer park"); Richard Linklater's Slacker, with its Austin, Texas, deadbeats, was their movie. This was the MTV generation: Net surfing, nihilistic nipple piercers whining about McJobs; latchkey legacies, fearful of commitment. Passive and powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Xpectations of So-Called Slackers | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

Despite being relegated to the loser's bracket, the double- elimination format of the Ivy Championships allowed the Crimson's hopes to remain alive. Building on the momentum generated during the last week of play, Harvard easily bypassed the second-seeded Yale in its quickest victory of the tournament...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: W. Spikers Finish Strong | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...think something great is happening. I'm proud to be part of that. But I don't want to be a loser because I'm playing only at 50% of my capacity and 50% of my psychological stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IBM OWES MANKIND A REMATCH | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

This afternoon, as some of us cram boxes into cars and others cram for finals, the Crimson faces the loser of the Oklahoma State-Stetson game. While many students might want to forget about anything to do with Harvard over the summer, our baseball team's accomplishment in beating the fourth-ranked team in the nation is something too memorable to discard...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: One for the Ages | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard fails to pull off the upset, it will face the loser of the game between No. 2-seeded Tennessee and No. 5-seeded Ohio. To win the regional tournament and a trip to the College World Series, a team must win at least three (and potentially four) games before losing its first...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball to Battle First-Seeded UCLA in NCAA Regional | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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