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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tigers' season-ending rip-roaring win over Harvard (10-6 overall, 6-1 Ivy) gives Princeton (6-1 Ivy) a share of the Ivy title, forcing the Crimson to split the crown for the second consecutive year. The title is the Crimson's eighth-straight Ivy championship...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Tigers Knot Netwomen For Title With 6-3 Win | 5/9/1990 | See Source »

...have put the university on notice that recent racial incidents cannot go unpunished. "The issues have been burning for years," she says. "We'll take to the streets, do whatever it takes, any means it takes." For her efforts, she has found threats in the mail and MANDELA-LUCKETT, RIP scrawled on the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigots in The Ivory Tower | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...boarded the flight, I felt guilty again. Who was I to rip off Trump, just because he was rich and I was jealous? My in-flight reading didn't do much to soothe my conscience. Kant had a whole example about the categorical imperative against swindling the selfish and well-to-do. The New York Times featured an article about the new Democratic leadership's commitment to "equal opportunity, but not equal outcome." My Ec 10 sourcebook--well, you can imagine what it had to say about robbing entrepreneurs...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...wasn't pretty, but the seventhranked Harvard men's tennis team overcame midterm blues, jetlag, the outdoors and erratic individual play to rip the U.C.-Irvine tourney championship from the jaws of ninth-ranked U.C.-Irvine in Davis backyard...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netmen Capture U.C.-Irvine Tourney | 4/3/1990 | See Source »

...assistants felt that the attitude was not good before the game," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said after Friday's loss. "We still had a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament. How can you not play hard? How can you not go into the game wanting to rip someone's head...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Two Disappointing Endings to Cagers' Disappointing Season | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

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