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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while education can prove effective in helping the public to understand the benefits of proportional representation, nothing can serve democracy more than a concrete demonstration of proportional representation's superiority over the deficient legacy that winner-take-all democracy has left our nation. I urge you to cast your ballot come Nov. 2. We, too, are members of the Cambridge community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Better Way Than One Man, One Vote | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Have you heard people say they don't like black-and-white movies? What on earth could they mean by that? Why do I prove literature's equivalence to now? Why aren't we showing now's equivalence with literature, or the past? Do you listen to music at parties, or just recognize it? What if you don't recognize it? Can you dance to anything not four-on-the-floor...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...against the Braves should prove to be a good preparation for Saturday, when the Crimson resumes its Ivy League schedule against Dartmouth...

Author: By David R. De remer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Knocks Off Quinnipiac in Four Games | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

Bradley, a candidate who has struggled to prove his viability against a well-funded front-runner like Gore, also wants to overhaul campaign financing, Shannon said. His idea, Shannon added, is to require broadcasters to set aside time for candidates in the weeks before elections...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gore, Bradley Staffers Stump for Student Aid | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

Empires historically have crumbled when they overreach, and superterrorist Osama bin Laden?s adventures in China may yet prove to be his undoing. The survival prospects for the international financier-revolutionary dimmed last week following the coup in Pakistan and a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against his hosts ?- Afghanistan?s Taliban movement ?- if they fail to extradite Bin Laden for trial in the U.S. Beijing and Moscow were more than happy to support Washington in passing the Bin Laden resolution, because the fugitive Saudi is alleged to have actively supported Islamic separatists in Chechnya and in western China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Time, Bin Laden May Have Gone Too Far | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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