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Junior Jordanna Fraiberg took fourth place, sophomore Libby Eynon took fifth, rookie Erin Dockery garnered sixth and Cunningham rounded out Harvard's players in the top ten at tenth place...

Author: By Y. TAREK Faroukim, | Title: Squash: Two National Champs | 3/9/1993 | See Source »

...tenth grade World History class at High Point High School, a predominantly Black school in Hyattsville, Maryland, Zaheer R. Ali '94 noticed that European history was being emphasized while other cultures were largely ignored...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, | Title: BATTLE AGAINST THE 'HARVARD PLANTATION' | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...nationwide battle that lasted 25 days and was fought in more than 100 cities, towns and military bases. Perhaps 37,000 South Vietnamese guerrillas and North Vietnamese soldiers died during Tet and subsequent cleanup operations. The losses of the American and Saigon-regime forces were about a tenth of that. Tet was a crushing defeat that practically annihilated the political and military capabilities of the Viet Cong. Yet the offensive marked the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement -- a disengagement freighted with national guilt and recrimination and completed in disarray in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Vietnam | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...fifth-ranked Crimson (15-2-1 overall, 12-1-1 ECAC) should be favored to win tonight against tenth-ranked Yale (13-6-2, 10-2-2) and tomorrow afternoon against Princeton...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Cream of ECAC Battles at Bright | 2/12/1993 | See Source »

...million miles), only nuclear explosives pack enough wallop to avert disaster. At that distance, the energy needed to deflect a 2-km-wide (1 1/4-mile) object enough to spare Earth is about the equivalent of a 1-megaton nuclear explosion. If the object gets to about a tenth of that distance, the energy required is 100 megatons, more powerful than any nuclear device yet exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Out! | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

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