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...finally found a station that didn’t recycle reincarnations of the Dixie Chicks on repeat. Charleston’s 96 the Wave played Nirvana and Marcy’s Playground — hits from the 90s that I should perhaps be embarrassed to admit I love. With the radio cranked up, I was frying catfish in the kitchenette, riding a wave of elementary school nostalgia when, all of the sudden, the sound of an insistent nasally twang snapped...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking the Avenger | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...race ahead of her in 2008 and a second Senate term recently secured in the 2006 midterm elections, Hillary Rodham Clinton is long past her days as first lady in the White House. Yet, just like an annoyingly catchy single by a reinvented-for-the-new-decade star of 90s pop, they just keep bringing back Hillary, circa...

Author: By Gracye Y. Cheng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The White House Years of Clinton—Hillary, Not Bill | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

Richards, who played Kramer on the hit ’90s sitcom “Seinfeld,” was caught on video saying some very nasty things to two black men who supposedly interrupted his act at the Laugh Factory. (The men claim they were just ordering drinks.) Instead of using a witty line to put the hecklers in their place, Richards used a racist...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten | Title: The Last Taboo | 11/27/2006 | See Source »

...part of it too, albeit indirectly. Pension funds, foundations and endowments--cautious money--flooded into hedge funds after stocks tanked following the late-'90s boom. The institutions were seeking an edge. They didn't get much of one for long: the industry's last year of 20%-plus returns was 2003, according to Hedge Fund Research, and since then funds have on average returned an unflashy 9% a year, partly because the torrent of new money makes markets more efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, Hedge Funds | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

Jefferson County has worked hard to avoid this first by racially gerrymandering school- attendance zones in the 1980s and then by instituting its 15/50 "managed choice" program in the '90s. This system has maintained not only integrated schools but also community peace. Despite all the long bus trips--the average ride for Jefferson County students is about 45 min.--77% of Jefferson County parents agreed that guidelines should be used to ensure diversity, according to a survey conducted in 2000 by the University of Kentucky. The district also assiduously tracks the percentage of the county's school-age children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Public Schools Aren't Color-Blind | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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