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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bill Clinton is a canny player of political poker. In criticizing movies for their grossness, as he has in the wake of Littleton and other teen tragedies, Clinton is playing his Dan Quayle card. It's not the wrong card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...they are: Dara Horn '99 of Short Hills, N.J. and Eliot House. Brendan M. Schulman, third-year student at Harvard Law School, of Winnipeg, Canada. ("It's not about the green card," Schulman quips.) Horn, a former Crimson executive, was a literature concentrator. Schulman, a former English major, graduated from Yale in 1996. ("I'm marrying the enemy!" Horn says...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: To Have and To Hold | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...envelope contained a card with two rhyming clues and a confusing number. "KEM 535.4 .A37 1999," it read. The hunt was on. To Horn, who had recently completed her thesis, it was obvious that it was a call number. And Schulman had recently shown her a Hollis function to look up call numbers. So she looked...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: To Have and To Hold | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

When they reached the roof, Horn realized that Schulman had timed their visit so that once again, it was sunset. She opened the book and found another envelope in the inside cover. "Words are the key and you hold the code," the card inside read. Then, five numbers...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: To Have and To Hold | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...card on the door says the Spee remains open to graduates during the club steward's hours, Monday through Thursday...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spee Grad Board Bans Students From Building | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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