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...team was struggling through a sub-par year, not living up to its tremendously high preseason expectations. The women's team was also having an average year, just two games above .500. The men had recently placed fourth in the Beanpot, the last at historic Boston Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6. The Beanpot Championship | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...three-foot-thick mantle of ice surrounding the island so that a Russian hospital ship could reach the area. Rescuers fear they are running out of time: complicating the sheer magnitude of the damage and severity of the injuries of those still alive under the rubble are the bitter sub-freezing temperatures gripping the area. "We are racing against time, against hours and minutes," said Sergei Khetagurov, Russia's deputy minister for emergency situations. "Rescue work can help save victims only in the first two or three days. After that, there is no one left to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSIVE RESCUE EFFORT IN RUSSIAN QUAKE | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...lack of both substantive inclusion (that is, a greater emphasis on racial politics) and descriptive inclusion (having more professors of color) apparently has quantifiable disadvantages as well. The most recent U.S. News and World Report guide to the best graduate schools ranked Harvard's department number one in every sub-field of political science--except for American government. The University of Michigan, the department that surpassed Harvard's, has more than ten minority faculty as well as a strong emphasis on minority voting rights...

Author: By Kareem U. Crayton, | Title: It's A Matter of Color | 5/24/1995 | See Source »

...Radcliffe crew suffered through yet another day of sub par weather, rowing under the gloomy Cambridge skies and a rising tailwind...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Northeastern Nips W. Crew by a Hair | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...soon learn that the Russian sub plot is a red herring. The real cold war is being waged between these two American officers. The real explosive device is inside Captain Ramsey's wayward head. And the film's real theme is executive stress. It's a charged debate among middle-management types agonizing over fuzzily transmitted orders from their boss, who happens to be the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER'S TIDE ROLLS IN | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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