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...side, the results were not as successful. Eventual winner Dartmouth easily outdistanced the ninth-place Crimson, 105-29. Despite the men's squad's disappointing finish, Coach Frank Haggerty still chose to look at the positive experience of the weekend...

Author: By Rik Geiersbach, | Title: W. Thinclads Grab Heps; Men Take Ninth | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Shyjan, who currently is ranked ninth in the nation, defeated Leaycraft...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: LSU Drops Netmen | 2/23/1990 | See Source »

That's not all Harvard stole from McCutcheon. With the victory, the Crimson (12-7-1 overall, 11-5-1 ECAC) gained sole possession of second place in the ECAC, displacing the Big Red. Harvard also clinched its ninth straight Ivy League title, breaking Cornell's record of eight...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Icemen Come Back To Crunch Cornell, 5-2 | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

...moonbeams to produce an indigestible concoction." By measuring education spending as a percentage of national income instead of comparing dollars spent, it says, E.P.I. uses a methodology that is "seriously flawed." But the study does, in fact, compare per pupil expenditures as well. Result: the U.S. comes in ninth out of 16. "No matter how you do it, we're a low spender," says Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the report. "We're definitely not as Bush claims. We don't spend lavishly on our kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Short Change | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...never has been, available for interviews. What can definitively be known about him has long since been tracked down. He was born May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, N.Y., into an old, distinguished New England family; one ancestor founded several towns in Massachusetts; another served as the ninth president of Trinity College in Hartford. Pynchon graduated from Oyster Bay High School in 1953, enrolled at Cornell University, took time out to serve in the Navy, returned to college, worked on the literary magazine and received a B.A. in 1959. Classmates who remember Pynchon at all recall a tall, shy young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shadowy Presence | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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