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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...police and Cambridge police have increased patrols around the MIT campus, where there were four armed robberies over the span of four days...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Crime Wave Hits Campuses | 10/26/1993 | See Source »

...awards do provide an entertaining hour and a half, partly because they cater to the attention span most natural to most college students. A compilation of foreign ads without any American-dominated gold lion pedigrees, however, would have been more amusing...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, | Title: Hard Sell | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...early 1980s, young GOP House members adopted a new strategy for combatting the insurmountable Democratic majority. Led by Newt Gingrich, they decided to take advantage of C-Span TV cameras situated 24 hours a day in the House chamber by making alarmist, often untrue, speeches from the podium about what the Democrats were doing to the House. Most of the time, there were few other members in the chamber; sometimes, there were none because everyone else had gone home for the night. These tactics so infuriated Speaker Tip O'Neill that he directed some untoward language at Gingrich from...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: He Played Well in Peoria | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Certainly, last Saturday Ramer left several Leopards' clocks completely spic and span...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Of Shaved Heads And Windy Cities | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

Mark Shumka, Princeton (Sr., M) Vancouver, B.C.--Scored two goals in a 33-second span, lifting Princeton past Seton Hall. --Compiled by the Ivy League office

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN'S IVY LEAGUE SOCCER | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

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