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...pair complained of a domineering husband and a jealous wife. Her successor charged that the husband had made sexual advances and the wife had refused to speak to her. Becky, who helped the first go home and the second find a better job, says the agency failed to assist in either case. More common, an agency will attribute the problem to "incompatibility," and try to rematch both sides of the equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mary Poppins | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

This is not the first time the College has tried to assist student clubs with money management problems. An experimental version of the seminars was tried five years ago but discontinued because of poor attendance, Epps said...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Epps Will Organize Financial Seminars | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

...seminars, to be organized through the office of the Dean of Students, are designed to assist students in managing non-profit organizations, Epps said...

Author: By Susan A. Chen, | Title: Epps Will Organize Financial Seminars | 11/19/1994 | See Source »

Obviously the freshman class had a big thing to do with this year's success--Harvard's three leading scorers were all rookies. Emily Stauffer (6 goals, 6 assists), Keren Gudeman (4 goals, 6 assist) and Kristen Bowes 4 goals, 2 assists kick-started the attack all year...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Some Super Senior | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

...often said, as a way of orienting anyone coming to him fresh, that Powell did for the piano what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone. Together, and with no small assist from Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie, they took a hand in fearlessly turning jazz inside itself, then inside out, as they created bebop. But Powell found distinctive melodic nuances on his keyboard. He wasn't as witty and romantic as Nat Cole or as exuberant a geometrician as Art Tatum, both non-beboppers. But he could find a secret, personal vibrancy on a standard like Jerome Kern's Yesterdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAZZ: The King of the Hill | 10/31/1994 | See Source »

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