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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back when Bill and Boris were new in their jobs, they called each other friend and partner, and Washington placed its chips on a bet that Russia could be Poland--able to shed Marxism in short order for free markets, democracy and cooperation with the West. This week, when Russian Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov arrives on his first official trip to Washington, the wreckage of that early optimism will be piled high. Yeltsin is sick, erratic and unpopular. Parliamentary elections scheduled for December are likely to give more power to communists and nationalists. The ruble's collapse last summer, Moscow...
Tests like the MCAT "are a test of knowledge of a specific set of information, and some might argue that for the science topics covered there is no other way short of lab to test this knowledge," Nwanze wrote...
About 35 people, including members of the Living Wage Campaign, met in front of University Hall shortly after 3 p.m. for a 30-minute demonstration and a short march around Mass. Hall...
...waning days before spring break are a time of intense griping for Harvard students. They complain, with reason, about the long, unvanquished winter, about mid-terms that block the light at the end of the tunnel, and about a break so short it's like sitting down to a meal only to get kicked out after the tapas...
...never think of size as a disadvantage because women's hockey is still a very open, fluid game," Shewchuk says. "I played full-contact a couple of years ago with boys in Montreal who were 6'2 or bigger, so size doesn't intimidate me. When you're short you have to be fast, and I like to think of my smallness as sneakiness. I can slip behind people a little easier than taller players. In some ways I have to take two strides when everyone else only needs one, but you learn to get past that and I haven...