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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with only three weeks remaining before election day, Silber has been unable to shake his image of instability--a fact that was driven home in last week's debate by his opponent, William F. Weld...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Despite Prodding, a Volcanic Silber Fails to Erupt | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

...Rabbit, force-feeding himself at the tube, has become through sheer couch-potatodom a current-events buff. But the Tibetan religious leader continues to interest Rabbit, who later, in the hospital after an angioplasty on his clogged arteries, tries to imagine life after his death and fails. He cannot shake the impression that his hometown "and all the world beyond are just frills on himself, like the lace around a plump satin valentine, himself the heart of the universe, like the Dalai Lama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Peace | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...reprehensible as Harvard's legacy policy is, we can do little but shake our heads and curse as long as Harvard students remain content to accept a spoils system as a substitute for fair and equitable admissions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Is Harvard Really Innocent? | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

...though it were an ocean. The Mississippi River raged with waterfalls and rapids. Fountains of sand erupted in gritty geysers. Shock waves, pulsing outward for hundreds of miles, wrecked boats in the Charleston, S.C., harbor, cracked masonry in Cincinnati, and caused church bells to peal and buildings to shake as far away as New York City and Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wake Up, East And Midwest | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson must shake its lethargy by Saturday, when it hosts Cornell at Cumnock Field. The game marks a return to natural grass for the Crimson, which has played its last two contests on unfamiliar artificial turf...

Author: By Sean Becker, | Title: Springfield Shuts Down Stickwomen's Attack, 1-0 | 10/4/1990 | See Source »

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