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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old junior had been drinking at a campus party that night and left near midnight. Witnesses said he staggered along campus roads for about a mile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill in Congress May Reform Crime Reporting, Disciplinary Proceedings | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...chilly Saturday night late last September, Adam G. Prentice, a bright young honors students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, fell through the roof of a greenhouse near the campus Morill Science Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill in Congress May Reform Crime Reporting, Disciplinary Proceedings | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...nasty and getting nastier. Cars have been stoned. Religious centers have been fire bombed. Excrement has been thrown. People on both sides have been assaulted on the street. A Prime Minister has been murdered. Says Menachem Friedman, a sociologist at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan: "We are really near the edge [of] where people can tolerate each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Religious Wars | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...finals draw near, Lamont's reading room becomes more crowded, and students seek out their own study niches in or around the University...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Select Study Dens Draw Students | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...Neither the three celebrities that have declared their intentions, nor former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten -- another potential candidate for mayor -- are anywhere near the top of early opinion polls. First in London?s heart is ?Red? Ken Livingstone, the extreme-left-wing ex-council leader whom Mrs. Thatcher ousted in the early '80s. Red Ken?s elevation to the new job would be an enormous embarrassment for Tony Blair, who has renounced the old-style socialism that his Labor colleague Livingstone still sticks up for. The election is set for late 1999 -- and if opinions stay the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Red' Scare for Blair | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

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