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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students' reading skills may not be at fault. The difficulty level of the course, in student's eyes, seems to be its demands in relation to its presentation during shopping period. Cramer said students have questioned the course's difficulty not in comparison to other History courses, but to those within the Core itself...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recent Student Complaints Highlight Increased Core Difficulty, Workload | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...though, are a decade of pedophilia: Prince William, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Elijah Wood and Hanson look like fresh-eyed dough babies in comparison to the heroes of yore. "It's a reversal of gender roles," postulates Tse W. Lim '02. "Older men have traditionally young girls. Girls these days are liking younger and younger guys...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Idol Hands Do the Devil's Work | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...horrible beyond comparison. "Man, that party...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Speakin' in tongues | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

...took one swim, got nauseous and quit." Sometimes he probes deeper, managing to combine laughter and the uncomfortable (arguing, for instance, that Jews find solace in the medical field because they can't be persecuted). Generally, however, Jackie's comedy depends on praising or humiliating the Jew--in comparison, of course, to other races...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chutzpah, the Musical: Jackie Mason Yuks Up 'Much Ado About Everything' | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...previous films (mostly high-concept slapstick comedies like Johnny Stecchino) have never found much of an audience, and his attempts to break into the American film market (Son of the Pink Panther) have fallen flat. He's been dubbed by some as Italy's Robin Williams, though this comparison hardly seems adequate. The best way to describe Benigni is as a mime who speaks--his broadly funny body and facial movements complement a mellifluous, mile-a-minute verbal style, and, in the case of Life is Beautiful, a script that is wise, sympathetic and very often hysterically funny. Benigni knew...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is 'Life' Really Beautiful? | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

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