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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Coach has worked us really hard during intersession, but we've really benefited from a lot of kids coming in and working hard during exams," Kierstead said. "We're not in the best shape because of the break, but this is the best I've seen [at this point in the season] in four years...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Grapplers Sweep in Warmup for Cornell | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...This is the best conditioned we've been for Cornell in four years," Kierstead said...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Grapplers Sweep in Warmup for Cornell | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...enough for San Francisco to have merely tied history. Their fourth Super Bowl victory tied the Pittsburgh Steelers' record. Both teams have been hailed as the best of their respective decades...

Author: By Juan Plascencia, | Title: One For the Thumb in '91? | 2/1/1990 | See Source »

...lyrics were equally innovative. Instead of the familiar themes of love and loss, he wrote vividly poetic images, inspired by the free-flowing narratives found in the works of Latin writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. "Most Latin songs are about the guy who betrayed his best friend, or the women who left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUBEN BLADES: Singer, Actor, Politico | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

About half the U.S.S.R.'s 286 million people are Russian; the rest of the population is splintered among nearly 100 other ethnic groups. The non- Russians best known in the West are the Baltic peoples -- Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians -- who are noisily resisting Moscow's domination. The three independent republics were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. For 50 years the U.S. has said Soviet rule in the Baltic republics is illegitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Independence | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

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