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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the weekend days of competition, Harvard posted an impressive sixth-place team finish in the Nevin's Trophy Cup at King's Point Rhode Island, while individual sailors senior Pete Strotham and freshman Shawn Doyle shined at the Coast Guard single-handed eliminations at the Naval academy in New London, Conn...
Rafter, who had to rally from a two-set deficit in the first round but never was threatened again in the tournament, won $700,000 and moved up to No. 2 in the world rankings--just behind Pete Sampras, whom he defeated Saturday in the semifinals...
...signs that MIKE BARNICLE, Boston Globe columnist, has yet to move into the '90s: 1) after getting caught allegedly lifting jokes from George Carlin, he failed to be at all contrite; 2) he lifted jokes from George Carlin. Carlin? What year is this? That's like stealing lyrics from Pete Seeger...
...would doom it--he has been leading town-hall meetings around the country. In January he proposed devoting the entire budget surplus to the problem (something he may regret now that the cigarette money is gone), an approach that last week won the support of Republican Senators Pete Domenici and Phil Gramm. (Their surprising move pulled the rug out from under House Republicans, who want to use some of the surplus for a huge election-year tax cut--$702 billion over 10 years.) So far so good. But saving Social Security means making hard choices--moving part of the trust...
...grass-roots group, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has received a $500,000 pledge from State Farm Insurance (to be paid over five years), and its recent "Feel the Power" convention was partly sponsored by ARCO (a company that was boycotted by Hispanics in 1994 after it supported Governor Pete Wilson, backer of the anti-immigrant Proposition 187). With Hispanics at more than a quarter of California's population, these companies are seeking goodwill, but the impact of corporate generosity goes beyond customer loyalty. The funding of Latino registration and get-out-the-vote efforts is likely to benefit Democrats...