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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claim that the council's fight for Faculty diversity has been fruitless, is it really time to throw in the towel? Will we, as a student body, give up so easily? Stewart, Cohen, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton--all could learn a bit from the philosopher and Harvard professor Alfred North Whitehead. "No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives," Whitehead said in January, 1944, speaking about the overemphasis placed on the economic motive in humankind. If tomorrow's leaders, and tomorrow's voters, readily shun...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Idealism Takes a Tumble | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...kidding here. This is as important a quality-of-life issue as any. With the investment of just a bit of their newly-won political capital. Stewart and Cohen should be able to put two-ply in every bathroom from Mather to PfoHo by March--taking action for a change, and in the process flushing away all memories of a student government that once aimed higher...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Idealism Takes a Tumble | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

...said that he has already made plans for what he will do with the prize money if he wins. "Harvard Medical School will be getting quite a bit...

Author: By Theresa J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Question: Students Win Big on 'Jeopardy!' | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

Time out! In a garish era for movies, does Brooks even have a shot with this Candygram? Its sentimental story has more cripples and victims than A Christmas Carol. And the first half an hour, a bit slow and unsure of its tone, plays like The Grinch from Greenwich Village. The film also echoes Jerry Maguire, the Tom Cruise hit that Brooks produced last year. That one had a self-obsessed hero, a sweet mother-child tandem and a media figure in trouble. All you can say about Brooks' new film, which he wrote with Mark Andrus, is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: MAD ABOUT HER | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...often that the normally loquacious RICHARD HOLBROOKE becomes press shy. But in discussing the memo that he, as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, wrote justifying Democratic contributor LARRY LAWRENCE's burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Holbrooke is a wee bit defensive. All the evidence now seems to suggest that Lawrence, a former ambassador to Switzerland, fabricated his supposed World War II Merchant Marine service and the German torpedo that allegedly ripped open his vessel, tossing him into the drink. Says a source close to Holbrooke: "When someone tells you about something that happened to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT--THEY TEND TO EXAGGERATE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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