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...trend continued yesterday when an unidentified man stole an undetermined amount of money from a Bank of Boston branch in Alewife, bringing the number of robberies in the city this year to 10--two more than were reported last year, police said...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Cambridge Banks Wary As Robberies Increase | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

Second, they provide a forum for artistic debate. This sounds bloated and silly, but an intelligent, experienced critic, even a peer, can sometimes give you a lot of insight into a particular branch of the arts. If more people responded to reviews (or if more reviews were stimulating enough to respond to), some lively debates could be generated...

Author: By David M. Edelstein -, | Title: An Explanation of the Role of Student Reviewers on Campus | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...says Howard Learner of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest. "If you're in a real estate transaction, you want to know what's buried beneath the land and what's in the water supply." Preventive action, in short, has become the main focus of this growing branch of legal practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Battling Crimes Against Nature | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...sprang up across the Asian republics, where Muslim believers practiced their religion without official imprimatur. In Uzbekistan an undetermined number of Muslims have joined mystical Sufi sects. In Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan authorities have recently become concerned about the spread of groups espousing Wahhabism, the puritanical sect of the Sunni branch of Islam that first emerged in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KARL MARX MAKES ROOM FOR MUHAMMAD | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

SUJA's Harvard branch will also sponsor a rallyin commemoration of the 30th anniversary of theSharpeville tragedy--in which 26 Black SouthAfricans were killed by police--on Wednesday,March 21, Gurner said...

Author: By Fffie K. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Students Join Divestment Coalition | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

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