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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Varsity coaches refer women to our club now," Petrovic said. "And now we receive direct support from the varsity women's assistant coach, Jennifer Callen. She donated over 40 tennis outfits to our club exclusively for club use at inter-collegiate matches...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Petrovic, Radcliffe Tennis Club Charge the Net | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

...strategy behind this extension of the NATO air war against Slobodan Milosevic has a devilish design: to break the spirit of the Serbian people by depriving them of modern conveniences. When military planners refer to "bombing them back to the Stone Age," this is what they have in mind: everything from bridges to television stations has become a target. Many Serbs are now living by candlelight, eating food that doesn't require refrigeration and sleeping--if they can sleep at all--with the uneasy knowledge that 0.07% of NATO's bombs do go astray. Not surprisingly, as the allied target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: Hits And Misses | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Hasek is unusual in real life too. He has both the sketchy temperament and the Czech wackiness that has caused several teammates to refer to him as Kramer, but he can also be eerily emotionless. Fellow Czech and NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr wears sweater No. 68 in memory of the year the Russians occupied his country. Hasek says beating the Russians in the Olympic finals was no big deal. "The older people in Czech could feel this way, but I did not feel like I was playing against a country that occupied us for many, many years. These last eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hockey's Flopper Stopper | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...spite of what my research suggests, this concept is almost too clever not to exist somewhere, in some language. If it exists, it would not refer to simply an act of pathological self-deception, such as in, "I feel nostalgic for the Mondale Presidency." It would rather refer to the prevalent feeling that things used to be better in the past, even though that past is one that is more imagined that real. As one of the most richly mythologized institutions in the country, Harvard often falls prey to this same attitude. Consider a few cases of nostalgia for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Imagining the Past | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...dominant form of transportation. In sprawling, suburban California, getting off-campus practically requires a car since public transportation is somewhat limited. Although it is possible to get along without a car, those without one (that's you, first-years) will be left stranded on a campus that many jokingly refer to as "the Bubble...

Author: By Terry Hwang and Evan Nordby, THE STANFORD DAILYS | Title: Sunny Delight: Good Enough for The First Daughter | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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