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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Plain and simple, Harvard University is too competitive. Not just inside the classroom, where a little competition can be expected, but also outside, where we're supposed to be having The Best Years Of Our Lives...

Author: By Gavin M. Abrams, | Title: The Real Rat Race | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...Greetings, conversationalists across the fruited plain, this is Rush Limbaugh, the most dangerous man in America, with the largest hypothalamus in North America, serving humanity simply by opening my mouth, destined for my own wing in the Museum of Broadcasting, executing everything I do flawlessly with zero mistakes, doing this show with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair because I have talent on loan from . . . God. Rush Limbaugh. A man. A legend. A way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man. A Legend. A What!? | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...Capitol Hill, an irate Bush summoned his aides, saying, "I want to talk to the American people." Last Thursday afternoon Bush stepped into the White House press room, the stony fighter-pilot look in his eyes not unlike the determination he exhibited the morning after Iraq invaded Kuwait. In plain language he threatened to veto any congressional loan bill that might emerge before the prospective Middle East peace conference, which he hopes to get off the ground next month. Pounding the lectern, he warned that a divisive congressional debate over the guarantees "could well destroy our ability to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: No Give and Take | 9/23/1991 | See Source »

...state representative from Jamaica Plain received a $200,000 inheritance upon the death of a bag lady he had once helped with a housing matter...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...state representative from Jamaica Plain received a $200,000 inheritance upon the death of a bag lady he had once helped with a housing matter...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: ...Meanwhile In Boston, The Biggest News Was Still the Sox | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

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