Word: news
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is great news because our students here have so many outside awards coming in," said Jannette Parks, Harvard coordinator for federal and state...
...United States, though by the time the Americans had entered the scene, the party was mostly over. The "clothes horses" of the '80s "were known to blow $100,000 or more on a couture wardrobe on a single Paris trip." These trans-Atlantic pirates, in the era of fashion news programs like CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch" became the final guard of a dying industry, and Agins argues that we (you, me and her) looked up to them until our trust was broken. Haute Couture had never resembled the reality of the upper-middle and middle classes...
...September 1997, the Boston City Licensing Board shut down MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity after first-year pledge Scott Kreuger died from alcohol poisoning at one of the fraternity's parties. Every since, the news media has given MIT fraternity antics national attention. That attention is currently being lavished on a recent rash of stupidly self-destructive stunts...
...rivalry. But we've already been there, done that. In 1988, Yale's secret society, Skull and Bones (of which Bush Sr. was a member) featured prominently in the strip, as did analysis of Gore's political and familial pressures in the Democratic primary. All the former Yale Daily News cartoonist has to do now is print re-runs for the next 12 months. He may have covered George Bush's bubble icon with a large empty cowboy hat for his son, but it otherwise seems like the same old story...
Finally, some bad news for Slobodan Milosevic that's good news for the Serbs. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced Wednesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions against Yugoslavia if the country holds free and fair elections - even if they result in a Milosevic victory. That's a retreat from the more extreme U.S. position that had insisted sanctions would remain in place until Milosevic is ousted - through elections or not - and brings Washington more into line with the thinking of European NATO members and the Serbian opposition. "Most important," says TIME Washington correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, "the policy shift makes...