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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a three-year debate between Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) student leaders and University administrators, the question of whether the organization will become independent from the University is closer to being answered...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A HOUSE DIVIDED TRIES TO STAND | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

Even Drummond, who directs the prefect program, agrees that closer access to upperclass students would be advantageous...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade and Adam S. Hickey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: A Proctor's Role Is Not Always Clear-Cut | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

...holes in his red truck, parked at LaPerle's IGA Supermarket north of town. Drega got out of the pickup truck and shot Phillips with the AR-15. Lord, who had followed Phillips into the lot, was shot getting out of his cruiser, first from a distance, then at closer range. Phillips, who was wounded, tried to climb an embankment, but Drega returned and shot him several more times with a 9-mm pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A TIME BOMB EXPLODES | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...ravenous mountain claims more and more territory, shrinking the boundaries of the safe zone, the once booming tourist destination moves closer to extinction. Towering menacingly above the island, Soufriere Hills erupts periodically, without warning. During explosions, even people in the safe zones wear gas masks and hard hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNDER THE VOLCANO | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...designers to muse like college freshmen about the nature of reality and still call it work. For instance, effects artists can give you long disquisitions on skin, its subtle sheen, the complexity of pores. To a computer, it's the little things that are most confusing about humanity. "The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make something look real," explains Muren. "When it's a ways away from reality you kind of respect it; it has its own integrity, like a kids' drawing or an Impressionist painting. But the more realistic it tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAVE GIGABYTES, WILL ACT | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

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