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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These institutions must explain why education policy is not the alpha and omega of a moral life. If the traditional institutions do not live up to this task, new ones will take their place. The Promise Keepers, a hybrid of traditional associationism and new-fangled group politics, gives us a taste of things to come. On the other hand, as the Pope's recent theatrical appearances in South America signal, the traditional forces are not down for the count just...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Moral Politics and the Polls | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...nebula is so vast that scientists measure it in light years, estimating its diameter at four light years, the distance from the sun to Alpha Centauri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEDNESDAY: The Universe's Big Gun | 10/8/1997 | See Source »

According to Elizabeth A. Hanselman '99, a member of the Harvard Chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, the sorority also has a "very strict no hazing policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pledging To Drink? | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...member of the Phi Iota Alpha fraternity says the organization does not permit brothers to drink while wearing the fraternity's letters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pledging To Drink? | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

Last year, the president of Lambda Chi Alpha was hospitalized after falling down his house's four-story elevator shaft in an alcohol-related incident. In 1991, a sophomore in Sigma Alpha Epsilon was accused of rape, and numerous other societies have frequently lost their right to serve alcohol in recent years...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes and Heather F. Stone, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: MIT First-Year Dies at Beth Israel After Party | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

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