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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make the picture even more perplexing is the fact that Yale, who was picked to finish 10th in the preseason coach's poll, is still atop the leader board with a 9-2-0 record, and is ranked No. 10 in the nation. Tim Taylor and his Bulldogs have won eight of their last 10 games, thanks in part to its power-play unit which is clicking at a league-leading 25.5-percent clip...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Readies for ECAC Stretch Run | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

...from an amazingly calm Mike McCurry, on remote from the White House briefing room, who ascribed Air Force One's mud delay to a "conspiracy under the right wing." (Scooping Leno with the joke, it turned out). In the end, the point Jeff Greenfield failed to make, despite a poll showing that 72 percent think there's "too much" coverage of Sexgate was: We're only doing it for you, dear reader! If you didn't want this stuff, why would news magazines, web sites and broadcast news programs like those on CNN be having record-smashing weeks? (Answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Word | 1/29/1998 | See Source »

...Crimson's race poll (News, Jan. 12) on race was very revealing. If 90 percent or more of those polled don't care, or care very little, about race relations at Harvard--then they probably don't care about race relations in general. I don't know if our generation will continue to have the luxury of being so self-absorbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Let's Care About Race | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

...gritty and gutsy performance," raved Ted Koppel on "Nightline." Ted claimed he saw "genuine admiration" on the faces of Clinton allies and enemies alike. An ABC poll gave the SOTU speech a 79 percent approval rating. Only 44 percent of those polled believed Hillary's line that the Prez's problems were due to a "right-wing conspiracy." Cokie Roberts asserted that even if the voters forgive Bill, their GOP representatives won't when his agenda hits the Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Word | 1/28/1998 | See Source »

Proponents of the English for Children initiative were buoyed by a recent Field poll showing that 66% of Latino voters back the measure. Among the supporters is Jaime Escalante, the East Los Angeles math teacher celebrated in the film Stand and Deliver. He has signed on as honorary chairman of the campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Habla Espanol | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

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