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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frustrating loss, since the Crimson was one of three teams to tie for first on the first day of competition. But on the second day, Harvard was forced into a single-elimination round-robin sail-off in which it lost to both teams. Moreover, the Crimson had beaten both schools two weekends earlier when it finished second at the Friis Trophy Team Race...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Co-ed Sailing Rides Wave Into Nationals | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...Robin A. Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge and a member of the committee in 1994-95, ousted incumbent Alfred B. Fantini in the election by a margin of only 200 votes...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mayoral Election Spurs Controversy | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...first part of competition is a round-robin tournament, and the top two finishers in each of two six-team pools advances to the semifinals. Harvard, playing in Pool A, posted a 17-14 victory over ninth-seeded Rice in the second round, and beat 12th-seeded Iowa, 15-10, in the fifth round...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: HIGHLIGHTS | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...done to support the United Nations arms embargo that was imposed last October and that the U.S. backed. Did the State Department ignore a clandestine delivery by a group of British mercenaries of nearly 40 tons of high-powered weapons to the diamond-rich nation? Both British Foreign Secretary ROBIN COOK and State Department spokesman JAMES RUBIN deny knowledge of the shipment. But a well-informed U.S. official tells TIME that word of the February deal was flashed to Washington from Africa and elsewhere. A participant in a Foggy Bottom meeting in early March says the completed shipment was described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gun Running | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). These two basically cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Sinatra to Eternity | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

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