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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who knew Sheldon describe him as a colorful character who once raced cars up Pikes Peak, farmed sheep in Montana and fathered two children in an unsuccessful marriage...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: POSING FOR POSTURE | 3/18/1995 | See Source »

...particular, council members say they have been told that the University may plan to boot undergraduates who aren't eating during peak hours from the smallish space...

Author: By And TODD F. braunstein, | Title: U. C. Members Worry About Commons | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

Since this fall, the average number of daily e-mail messages has risen from 80,000 to 130,000. The number of peak concurrent logins has increased from400 to 700, and the number of Unix accounts hasincreased from 9,000 to 14,000, Steen said...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: UNIX Will Be Down Saturday | 3/17/1995 | See Source »

...first half was good example of this. When the Crimson was playing at its peak, the game was a laughter...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women's Lax Opens Season With Throttling of B.C. | 3/16/1995 | See Source »

...enough just to run for President. Scandal hardly makes it worse. Scandal, in fact, endears the candidate to us. Senator Gramm, when asked why he had opted against military service in his youth, said, "It didn't make sense for a Ph.D. in economics, 26 years old, at the peak of the draft, to leave Texas A&M University and join the Army. Nobody was going to send me to Vietnam. I would have ended up working in a library or teaching at West Point." That response only makes him seem human. This is the sort of charming story that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A MOST UNFLATTERING SHOW | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

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