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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took undergraduate teaching very seriously. Even his jokes in class were planned," said colleague and Associate Professor of History Emmanuel K. Akyeampong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: African History Professor, Vail, Dies | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard took an eight-inning, 18-16 decision from Penn on Friday, but a late rally fell short in Saturday's nightcap at Columbia, with Harvard losing 9-8 in a game the Lions tried their best to give away...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball 3-1 on Opening Weekend | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...although the Crimson (9-8, 3-1 Ivy) took three of four from two Gehrig Division foes, nobody was talking about a successful weekend...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball 3-1 on Opening Weekend | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...STATEMENT] "I took the initiative in creating the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candidate Truth Watch | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...minor bureaucrat in Madras, India, Ramanujan tried twice to interest professional mathematicians in his spare-time dabbling with numbers. All too familiar with numerological crackpots, they were profoundly uninterested. But Ramanujan persisted, and his third shot was the lucky one. The eminent Cambridge don G.H. Hardy took the time to decipher the young man's idiosyncratic scrawls and realized he was corresponding with a genius. Unlike trained mathematicians, Ramanujan knew his speculations about numbers were true, so he didn't bother to prove them. That wouldn't do. Hardy brought him to England in 1914, and the pair spent four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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