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Surprisingly, that sad wave never came. Between really enjoying senior spring, keeping up with classes and pursuing jobs (to little avail), there was no time to be melancholy about my last trip to Hilles, my last helping of General Wong's chicken or my last section. Indeed, eight months later, I am still sick of add-drop forms, Ma Soba, the Grille and Harvard chairs. I am still ready to leave...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Facing a World of Worlds | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Time and again, the Kennedy School has invited world leaders such as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former President Jimmy Carter, but to no avail...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaker Selection Process Sometimes Puts Harvard at Disadvantage | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Root seeking inevitably demands patience--and ingenuity. Joseph Silinonte, 42, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had scoured U.S. Census, Naturalization and Board of Election documents for the birthplace of his great-great-great-grandfather, saloon owner Charles O'Neil, to no avail. Even an 1887 obituary in the Brooklyn Eagle was no help. Then he remembered that the record of O'Neil's son's marriage in 1872 had contained a little mark indicating a dispensation of banns--forgoing the public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...margin stayed the same until the Catamounts mounted a comeback in the waning minutes, including their last goal with less than a minute left, that would ultimately to no avail...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Holds Off UVM | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...department of Afro-American Studies, a demand the University agreed to later that year. Today, the department is one of the best in the country. The fight begun in 1969 isn't quite over yet, though: students have been asking for an ethnic studies program for years, to no avail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering 1969 | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

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