Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Final plans are released for Lamont Library, where "functional design will be the keynote." Construction of the library, which will be closed to Radcliffe students, is set to begin in June...
Renamed the Barker Center for the Humanities, the former Freshman Union officially opened its doors to the Harvard community from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. last Thursday after eighteen months of closure, allowing some of the humanities departments to begin the moving in process...
Lemmon's dramatic career did not begin to flourish fully until his days at Harvard, when he became a member, and was eventually elected president, of the Hasty Pudding The-atricals...
...most of the 13 years since Britain agreed to return Hong Kong to Chinese control, a majority of the citizens stayed on the sidelines. Only after Beijing crushed the pro-democracy movement in 1989 did Hong Kong's ordinary folk begin to demand an active role. Without China's approval, British Governor Chris Patten altered a century and a half of colonial tradition by introducing a package of political reforms to make the local legislature more democratic. Enter Martin Lee, whose eloquent outrage over Tiananmen earned his Democratic Party and its allies 17 of the chamber's 20 directly elected...
...mass retailers such as the Limited and K Mart, access to cheap (and legal) imported goods is vital to survival in a fiercely competitive industry. The Limited has announced no plans to change its sourcing, and will begin mounting its legal defense in early June. In all likelihood the company is waiting for the issue to fade, figuring that consumers will keep their eyes fixed on the lingerie and not the label...