Word: brights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...drugs began to assume a new importance insociety, two denizens of William James Hall,Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, were using the"mind-expanding" drug pscilocybin in experimentson students. Andrew T. Weil '64 was The Crimson'sdrug expert at the time-although he was also aPoonster-and did the bright, relentlesscomprehensive reporting that led to the eventualbanning of the experiments and termination ofLeary and Alpert...
When newly-elected Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) Co-President Amanda (Mia) Bagneris '99 approaches, it's hard to know what you're in for. On Wednesday, strutting up to me at Johnston Gate in leather-style pants and a bright scarf the color of a perfect rainbow, the New Orleans native exuded poise and self-assurance...
Cornell's recent 1,000th victory in team history might have put a bright spot on an otherwise dismal season. The Big Red (4-10, 2-1 Ivy) have shown some signs of life in January with wins over Dartmouth, Army and Columbia, but they lost to Harvard on Jan. 10 and must face the dangerous Princeton-Penn road trip at the end of the month...
...Cornell, a teaching post at Howard and editing jobs that eventually landed her in Manhattan. Jason Epstein, now a Random House vice president and executive editor, was Morrison's boss in those days, and he has remained a friend ever since. "She was a wonderful colleague," he says, "always bright and apt and funny. I used to love to go sit in her office, just for the pleasure of it; it was full of plants, I remember. It was clear that her heart and soul were in her own writing." Morrison stopped working on other people's manuscripts when...
...cool, outsider image they so desperately need. But over the past few years, black kids have been taking fashion cues from the whitest of the white: ski gear, polo shirts, hiking boots, N.H.L. jerseys. The gold chains and dangling clocks of the '80s have been replaced with sweaters in bright primary colors with polo embroidered on the front. Jeans are in, but the baggier the better. Ski jackets are pumped up to Michelin Man proportions. Things have got freaky, albeit in a decidedly unfreaky...