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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complete with numerous open bars and a huge table which strains under the weight of a cornucopia of Southern soul food--barbecue chicken, ribs, corn bread, cole slaw, rice and beans and buckets of tangy hot sauce. Fast R&B blares over the sound system as after-hours revelers bump and grind on tables by the twosome or threesome in a spectacle of Breughellina excess. After two hours of this, the DJ decides the hell with R&B, and switches to Madonna. Downstairs, 'poonsters lecture some musicians about the castle's hidden walls and secret tunnels. Meanwhile, in the library...

Author: By J.c. Herz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The House of Blues | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...most of the season, the defense was more of a speed bump: it allowed 36, 31, 31, 31, 30 and 21 points in Harvard's six losses before the Crimson's 29-19 victory over Brown. (Holding Brown to 19 points is no great feat in itself, but it's good for the stat sheet...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gridders' Bending 'D' Did Not Break | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...Bump, Baby: Harvard's draw with Penn last weekend ousted the Quakers from the national rankings. With Penn's departure, Brown moved up one position and Princeton shot to the 16th-ranking, the highest of any Ivy teams this season...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Terrier Thursday: Twinbill for Crimson | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...Charles Weingarten, chief of medicine at University Health Services, says cold season has arrived right on schedule. "There's a usual bump in incidents of people with viral respiratory infections in late September, when students are getting adjusted to school," he says...

Author: By Daria E. Lidsky, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Chilly Fall Unleashes Sniffles | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...given." During her sophomore year, she fell in love with a woman. She had subsequent lesbian liaisons but remained attracted to men. "I thought bisexuality was a phase I was going through before joining the lesbian community," recalls Listerud, now 29 and living in Chicago. But then, she would "bump into a guy in the cafeteria who was really cute or get a crush on a guy. Finally, it was like a little light bulb went off. I thought maybe bisexuality is real. I was absolutely terrified. It was undesirable; it was not politically correct. I was sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bisexuality What Is It? | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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