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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a frustrating 81-76 loss to the Ivy's other top gun, the Penn Quakers, Harvard showed no signs of burnout, rallying hard in the first half to stake a 35-29 lead behind nine points from Hill and seven from Clemente...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Men's Basketball Upsets Princeton | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...chassis is that of a Mercedes A-class sedan. The car's styling comes largely from SMH Automotive, the Swiss company that uses modular design to make Longines and Swatch watches (Smart, in fact, stands for Swatch-Mercedes art). SMH owned 19% of MCC until Daimler-Benz bought its stake in MCC before merging with Chrysler in October. "Basically, you could say the Smart's design, engine and chassis platform were all done by the assembler, because Swatch was an owner at the time," Franzen says. "These three things will always be done by assemblers themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cars | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...oath. Blumenthal insists he told the truth and says he's "saddened" that his old friend turned on him. Why did Hitchens do it? The vociferous Clinton critic says impeachment is important--so when Congress asked him, he had to talk. Intellectual feuders always argue noble principles are at stake, and this time is no different. Hitchens says it's about standing up to the White House's lies. "They have the power, and they've gotten away with everything from campaign finance to wagging the dog," he says. Blumenthal's camp says it's about friendship, loyalty and something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington, D.C.'S Best Grudge Match | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...stake in this meeting is how far universities are willing to go to take moral responsibility for their practices. Last year, workers from a Dominican Republic hat factory licensed by Harvard, speaking in front of University Hall, told us that they are paid 8 cents for each $20 hat they make, that the factory lacks safe drinking water and that workers are routinely fired for trying to organize. The American garment industry grosses $2.5 billion per year from the sale of university-licensed products manufactured in plants such as these. Harvard can help to stop this immoral impoverishment by adopting...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...suppose she's right? Chaos theory is pretty hard to take as it is, let alone on Valentine's Day, when exclusivity in love is what's at stake. Won't you be my Valentine? My irrepeatable, irreplaceable Valentine? Surely the implication of the day is that you were meant for me, I was meant for you. That movie Sliding Doors. What was that all about if not that the right she was destined to meet the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Arbitrary Valentine | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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