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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hicks: Maybe not on the first date. I guess it depends on whether it would just be in fun or if the act would be taken too seriously. Actually, I'm pretty slow going when it comes to relationships. As wild as the stripping and all seems, I've been single for a long time. No glamorous relationships, short term or otherwise...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Harvard's Silver-Medalist Stripper | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...Ideally we would have liked having History 10 in the Core Curriculum," Hankins said. "Many departments have their intro courses in the Core, allowing freshmen to explore their disciplines...[Such courses] act as recruiting for the department...

Author: By Katrina ALICIA Garcia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: History Department Contemplates Replacing Introductory Sequence | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...Juggling Act...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mr. Capuano Goes to Washington | 11/18/1998 | See Source »

...fine selection of black-and-white and color photos, The Century is a journalists' even-handed and vivid narrative of epochal global events and decisive mood changes in the nation's character. On the '70s: " ...the need to feel 'guilt free' in one's private life, to act without a sense of limits, became, for many, paramount. Thus...fewer trips to the confessional (though decidedly more visits to psychotherapists), freer attitudes toward sex, and a new vocabulary entry that described just about anyone with a private conscience as possessed of 'hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Times to Remember | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Jeffrey Archer's Viewpoint on the reform of Britain's 700-year-old House of Lords [Oct 26], it sounded really nice when he noted that "the hereditary peers owe their position to no living person. They are therefore free to think and act as they choose." Indeed, they have done nothing other than be born into the "right" families to gain their seats. According to Archer, the fact that the hereditary Lords are finally voting to give up their privileges is a proof of their wisdom. If it is, I only wish the Lords had been slightly more clever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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