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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a full two hours of play in the championship game, there was still no score. Wow, that's excitement! No more football for me. Now I know why all those foreigners riot at soccer tournaments. They want their money back. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...third was quotas. Tamil students applying to universities found themselves faced with quotas. If 20 percent of the population was Tamil, no more than 20 percent of the university students could be Tamil. This meant that Tamils had to score significantly higher than Sinhalese on university entrance exams...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: What War is Worth | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

Throughout the slow-tempo, 45-min. piece, danced to a haunting score by Gavin Bryars performed with synthesizers and stringed instruments, the virtual dancer reappears in various incarnations. Sometimes it's alone, bathed in purple light; at other times it's part of an elaborate ensemble of virtual dancers. It may be 20 ft. tall and amber, or tiny, white and barely there. Its "body" morphs from a hand-drawn squiggle to an array of dots to a mesmerizing blur. When it's visible, you study its interplay with the live dancers. When it vanishes, you wonder when it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Double Vision | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...Scores for the grade three Iowa Reading Test released Tuesday showed 59 percent of Cambridge's third graders are "advanced" or "proficient" readers. The jump from last year's score along with exceptional performance from four Cambridge elementary schools--Cambridgeport, M. E. Fitzgerald, King Open and Morse--has teachers and principals beaming with pride...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Schools Shine On Third-Grade Iowa Tests | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...about to see their footage, recovered a year after their disappearance. The rest of the movie shows the filmmakers at work. The movie is entirely shot in grainy video and 16mm film, often in bad light or with bad sound, through jerky, rushed shots. There's no score and no opening credits. On the one hand, this makes it plausible that the movie is no illusion. It seems to be a student documentary made on the cheap that fully demonstrates the power of the storied Blair Witch. But because the movie never tries to create the illusion that...

Author: By Dan Luskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Blair Witch Project | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

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