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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...

Author: By Hanna R. Shell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life And Times of a Fabled Polymath: Anthropologist of Life | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Whatever happened to Undergraduate Council reform? The council was on the right track last year with its increased funding of financially viable, popular campus organizations, block grants to House Committees, and establishment of a council Reform Committee. But since then, nothing much has happened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council: Remember Your Reforms | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...knew every single thing that went on on that whole block in New York. And that's what we've got to get back to," he adds. "Everybody knew Tony, and everybody respected him. I think if we start working to get to that ideal, it'd just be a whole lot better...

Author: By Carlos A. Monje jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HUPD Launches Community Policing | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Iraqi military and intelligence officials after U.N. inspections chief Richard Butler reported that Iraq was continuing to withhold information on its chemical weapons and missile programs. But France, Russia and China balked at an immediate ban, and the U.S. had to settle for a watered-down threat to block such travel sometime in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STARING DOWN SADDAM | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...roused to mischief by a clergyman who preached that the U.S. was the true setting for Genesis. Happily for Hull, the imaginative minister was fond of scriptural quotes like, "There were giants in the earth in those days." So the tobacconist hired a shady Chicago sculptor to turn a block of gypsum into a 10-ft. Goliath, which was shipped to a relative's farm in Cardiff, N.Y., for burial. After a year of underground seasoning, the figure was "discovered," and Cousin Stubby's farm became a combination Lourdes and sideshow. Suckers and scholars (not always distinguishable) lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: YANKEE DIDDLE DANDY | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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