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Cornell coach Randy May, cited Harvard's weakness of schedule, particularly within the Ivy League, as a major factor in the decision. Cornell was second in the league and tied Harvard 0-0 midway through the season. The Big Red also did not get a bid.

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Tourney Selection Committee Rebuffs W. Soccer | 11/7/1995 | See Source »

The weakness of liberals is most evident when they are contrasted with conservatives. Recent Republican heroes are men like Nixon and Reagan. Nixon was known for his unscrupulousness and his cruelty. The Christmas bombing of Hanoi and authorization of unconstitutional counterintelligence actions against his real and imagined enemies are typical...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: A Return to Militancy | 11/1/1995 | See Source »

The head of the company approached psychologist Martin Seligman at the University of Pennsylvania and invited him to test some of his theories about the importance of optimism in people's success. When optimists fail, he has found, they attribute the failure to something they can change, not some innate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE EQ FACTOR | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

If it is possible to quietly detonate a100 kiloton nuclear bomb, France did it Sunday off the Fangataufa Atoll in French Polynesia. "Because Greenpeace's boats have been confiscated, the organization currently has a greatly reduced capability to protest. The French government has very shrewdly focused on this strategic weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE EXPLODES ANOTHER NUCLEAR BOMB | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

"Either you join with me and we do it together," he reportedly told the Bosnian Serbs when they met, "or the deal gets done anyway, without you." As the document Milosevic showed Holbrooke attested, the Bosnian Serbs had capitulated, effectively signing their negotiating authority over to him. In Karadzic's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO AND THE BALKANS: LOUDER THAN WORDS | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

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