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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beaney said the committee did not tell him when the decision would be made...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beaney Among Candidates for Top Hockey Job | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...classmates, with their half-joking jabs, have tried to convince me that the Midwest is a backward, simple hickville and it almost worked. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. But I think it's Midwesterners who are behind...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, | Title: Between Two Coasts, A Hospitable Heartland | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...explain why, I'm going to have to tell another story. Yesterday, trucking along on the Interstate in rural Minnesota, I got my first flat tire. Luckily, it was the middle of the afternoon, so I just got out of my car and stood on the shoulder, trying to look helpless. Inside of ten minutes, a nice gentleman named Scott pulled over to help me. He taught me to change a tire while telling me about his three daughters and how he only hoped someone else would do the same for them...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, | Title: Between Two Coasts, A Hospitable Heartland | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...BUSH] "[We will] tell families from the barrios of L.A. to the Rio Grande Valley: 'El sueno americano es para...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Fellow Americanos... | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...many of his opponents will be consulting vast databases of past games and plotting computer-assisted strategies, a practice as common in chess now as using calculators to do long division. What's new here is the vast scale. In the long run, Kasparov vs. the World may tell us more about chess and human thought processes than Deep Blue ever could. "The result is irrelevant," says Kasparov, himself a part-time computer scientist and Internet addict. "It's a big experiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kasparov's World War | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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