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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spokesperson for Queen Elizabeth II on the loss of the queen's pet flamingos to a fox. Only six of the birds were actually killed by the fox, but the seventh bird died of shock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/3/1996 | See Source »

...practiced humility what he lacks in charisma. His shoes are falling apart, he explains, and his watch is broken. Six or seven times a day, he ventures into rented halls and coffee shops and describes himself as the late-blooming son of a hardscrabble family who "flunked the third, seventh and ninth grades" and still got a Ph.D. He recalls after his father died watching how his mother and older brother would sit around the kitchen table each month and decide which bills to pay. The bootstrap imagery is designed to dilute Gramm's reputation as meanspirited and boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW GRAMM COULD DO IT | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

After the Crimson's seventh game this year, it is 100-percent clear that the team's fortunes will depend on how well its defense does. Junior Kyle Snowden will get his double-doubles and junior David Weaver and senior Mike Gilmore will hit threes, but the defense will...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: Benton Out Of Shape | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...counsel to investigate whether Gingrich improperly used tax-deductible donations to fund the videotaped college course Renewing American Civilization, that he taught until earlier this year. The crowd at the Wednesday fund raiser applauded loudly when Gingrich told them the six charges had finally been resolved. As for the seventh, he said, it was a "technical'' matter. That line was echoed the next day by other members of the G.O.P. leadership. House Republican Conference chairman John Boehner of Ohio faxed around a 1994 letter by a former irs commissioner who stated that in his view, there was no problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT'S CASH MACHINE | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...students accepted in this year's early round, 436 were women--making this the seventh year in a row in which the number of women admitted early has risen...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Record Number Admitted Early | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

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