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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meanwhile, most Americans have a strong dislike for non-religious people; only 18 percent of Americans would allow atheists the basic right to assemble in a community's civic auditorium. But somehow, perhaps by a miracle, the nefarious liberal elites still manage to repress religion and exclude it from the political dialogue and the legislative process...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: A Dire Threat to Religion? | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...feel like I really haven't learned very muchsince I spend most of the time working on problemsI never really understand and I never develop asolid understanding of the basic and importantconcepts we cover in class," she explains...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Math 55: Rite of Passage for Dept.'s Elite Intimidates Many | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

...created course in calculus and linearalgebra, basic [concepts] in math, that wouldaddress these concepts in such a nontrivial anddeep way the people would still be interested intaking it," he says...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Math 55: Rite of Passage for Dept.'s Elite Intimidates Many | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

...weird scale and weave of plot lines, [it] was indeed innovative; its basic premises, though, were old news, which made its whiff of self-congratulatory nihilism annoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...when he raised this very question with her--the question of what it means to be a Christian--it went straight to the most basic requirement: God forgives a great many things, except being unforgiving. This is so much a part of who she is that she effectively had no choice, and they both knew it, and so there followed what several close friends describe as "a lot of Christian talk" between the Methodist First Lady and her Baptist husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary Clinton: The Better Half | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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