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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOVE MADALYN; APES EVOLVED FROM CREATIONISTS) and "solstice cards" for the areligious at holiday times. Perhaps more important, Madalyn, like many of her clerical foes, became adept at persuading elderly members to leave American Atheists their last bequests. In 1986, when she moved the organization into its current red brick headquarters, she claimed to have paid in cash the full cost of $1 million-plus. Jon Murray, her second son and by then her titular successor, told Wright, who later profiled her in his book Saints and Sinners, "We're accustomed to good food...All of us have nice clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHERE'S MADALYN? | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...years, posters publicizing speeches, concerts and other events have covered and other events have covered the brick walls of Thayer Gate-officially known as Meyer Gate-although the Office of the Dean prohibited Postering on spaces other than bulletin boards and kiosks...

Author: By Amita M. Shukla, | Title: Thayer Gate Postering Now Official | 1/29/1997 | See Source »

...country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...sustain any injuries, but the car accident damaged the building's brick front, its stairs and its railing, according to Harvard Police spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babson Student Rams Car Into Kennedy School | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

...friend of mine recently told me a humorous, if sorry, anecdote. She was walking through the Science Center gates on her way to class and, looking at the alluring poster-covered brick, decided to hang up a poster she had in her bag. She pulled out the poster and some tape and, probably whistling some little ditty innocently to herself, began to hang up the green construction paper--cut a piece of tape, smooth out the corners of the paper--until, BAM! Nailed by Harvard University Police officers--and fined twenty five dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fiddling While Rome Burns | 12/14/1996 | See Source »

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