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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about "dee-troit barbeque ribs." From out of the audience, two more tuxedoed guys spin around and race to the stage, doo-wopping and snapping to the tune. Others follow, tripping down the fire escape in the back of the room or popping up from behind the piano. The act has started and won't be over until the Kroks have knocked off a few 1950s tunes, a handful of ballads and scads of Jazz standards. The crowd gradually quiets down, probably somewhere in the middle of the old Scottish air "Loch Lomond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Behind the Curtain with the Kroks | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Standing out among all the possibilities of live animal ingestion, goldfish swallowing has emerged, in American historyoand specifically in Harvard historyoto be a unique American pastime. Always somewhat behind the scenes, this simultaneously awe-inspiring and repulsive act made you cringe in "A Fish Called Wanda" and probably yak on your lei at the Owl Luau. But in fleshing out the vague tradition invoked by these modern-day incidents, the fact is: Our experience constitutes the wriggling tail end of an intensely popular fad of the late 1930s...

Author: By Sarah L. Gore, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: (Gulp): A Brief History of Goldfish Swallowing | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...They were elected right under the nose of moderate Republicans preoccupied with the high-profile Republican gubernatorial primary which pitted a former Kansas Christian Coalition head against moderate Bill Graves. By moving the debate away from the abortion clinic doors (or rather, being banished from them by the FACE act) they have colored themselves as innocuous citizens merely concerned for the welfare of our school system...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Learning the Wrong Lesson | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...very nature of Coming Out Day ensures that coming out is a political act; theoretically, it is an activity partaken en masse, nationwide. It would seem, then, that the posters at Harvard serve more of a political purpose than that of encouraging students to come out of the closet...

Author: By Alex A. Boni-saenz and Cliff S. Davidson, S | Title: Sensationalism Does Not Instill Pride | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...group will also hand out signs reading "BGLT Safe Space" that are designed to be placed on dorm room doors, an act in response to homophobic vandalism in Mather, Winthrop and Adams last month. Those events also prompted BGLTSA to start tabling in the Houses this year on National Coming...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Promote Coming Out Day | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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