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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if a student submits an old form, it is unlikely that the errors will prevent successful processing of the form, DOE officials said...

Author: By Nicholas E.T. Shorter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dept. of Education Recalls 100,000 Financial Aid Forms | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...final ten minutes of the game, while the Harvard defense was nursing a slim one-goal lead, Kalil and Nagle alone sustained the Harvard offense, allowing the rest of Harvard's attackers to control the midfield and prevent a B.C. breakout...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Rallies Past B.C., 2-1 | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Although endostatin might prevent blood vessels in the body other than those around a tumor from forming, Corey said normal adult tissue can remain healthy without angiogenesis. Only tumors would be adversely affected, he said...

Author: By Eli M. Alper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Trials For Anti-Cancer Drug Start | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...Citadel, which has been the unwilling focus of discussions about gender and the law throughout the decade, stands to be the defendant in another benchmark sex-discrimination case. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the South Carolina military academy could stand trial for failing to prevent the hazing of a female cadet who dropped out in 1997. Under federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Citadel Snaps to Attention | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

...lawsuit alleges that the school knew about but failed to prevent a pattern of "insults, indignities, physical assault and humiliating treatment which went far beyond any need to toughen, strengthen or acclimate plaintiff to the rigors of military discipline." The academy maintains that the women were hazed no harder than average students, and points to the success of the two female graduates and the 15 percent dropout rate of the entering class in 1996. But Mentavlos?s lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, contends that the treatment she received was gender-specific, such as having her shirt set on fire so cadets could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Citadel Snaps to Attention | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

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