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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awfully hard to expect students to swallow the idea that, given the incredible spectrum of career options, such firms comprise the same percentage of the real job market as they did at the fair. The choices represented did students a gross disservice by perpetuating a narrow-minded perception of success...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: All the Same Toys | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Along with hard workouts and intense stretches to get them physically ready, the team has been visualizing racing success to get them mentally prepared. Martin, in particular, likes to prepare by imagining himself as a classical Greek hero...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cross-country competes in New Englands | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...sidelines as the Kosovo conflict took shape and East Timor descended into anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts in the Balkans may have paled in light of the Kosovo war. President Clinton's peacemaking centerpiece, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, has been an underwhelming success, and he's been more of a warrior than a peacemaker over the past year, while Pope John Paul II and President Carter haven't been particularly visible recently in mediating conflicts. In light of the competition, the Nobel Committee made an inspired choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Peace Prize Went to Some Fearless Doctors | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

Half a league, half a league, half a league onward... Flushed with their success in capturing Chechnya?s northern plains, Russian troops Friday pressed forward their offensive south of the Terek River with their sights firmly set on a triumphant march into Grozny, the Chechen capital. But they could be heading into a trap. "The Chechens are well-armed and well-organized, and they?re just waiting for the Russians to come onto more favorable terrain," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They haven?t made much effort to resist Moscow?s offensive on the northern flatlands, where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russians Appear Headed into a Chechen Bear Trap | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

Currently riding a seven-game winning streak, the longest of Coach Floerchinger's tenure, Harvard looks to extend its streak this weekend in California. The coach attributes the success to good team play...

Author: By Jose I. Aguilar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Polo Team Wins | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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