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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest soccer fan in the U.S., and helped bring the World Cup here in 1994." A call was placed, and the result is an enthusiastic and knowing appreciation of the great Brazilian superstar, as well as a cogent comparison of soccer and American sports, a realpolitik, so to speak, of two quite different regimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Writer Is The Hero | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Pankhurst's father was a Manchester manufacturer with radical sympathies. When she was small, she was consuming Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Bunyan and abolitionist materials; her earliest memories included hearing Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak. Her father was keen on amateur theatricals in the home; his daughter later enthralled the suffragists with her oratory and her voice. The young Rebecca West described hearing Mrs. Pankhurst in full cry: "Trembling like a reed, she lifted up her hoarse, sweet voice on the platform, but the reed was of steel and it was tremendous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Agitator EMMELINE PANKHURST | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

HUPD's rank and file initially had an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the layoffs--many refused to speak with The Crimson for fear they would lose their jobs...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tender Troopers: | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...HUPD's rank and file initially had an overwhelmingly negative reaction to the layoffs--many refused to speak with The Crimson for fear they would lose their jobs...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tender Troopers: The Beginnings of Community Policing in Harvard and Cambridge | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Greenspan, who will give the keynote address at today's Commencement, will likely not speak in obscure terms to the graduates, but Harvard's Class of 1999, should not expect investment tips either...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Buck Starts Here | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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