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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While all these problems detract somewhat from the academic experience of thesis writing, they pale in comparison to the hassles of the Class of '47 or '72, professors...

Author: By Karen M. Paik, | Title: Computers Revolutionize Harvard's Academic Life | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...comparison, FAS has received several gifts in the tens of millions of dollars, funding marquee projects such as the Barker Center for the Humanities, the Maxwell-Dworkin computer science building, the restoration of Memorial Hall and the creation of Loker Commons...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: FUNDS WITHOUT ALUMS | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...this summer with Los Alamos, a compelling and literate murder mystery from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER STATE: TRULY ENCHANTED: SPACESHIPS, POWWOWS, O'KEEFFE--OH, MY! | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...ridiculous as the sum might sound, especially in comparison to the $21,000 Pitino made in his first year at B.U. in 1978, he may be worth it. First, $7 million a year is less than any decent superstar makes in basketball or baseball, and basketball coaches have found in recent years that when they say it's either him or me, the owner invariably says it's you, since your guaranteed contract is much smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOT OF CELTIC GREEN | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...flitted about almost as much as cosmopolitan George. And with his first visit to Latin America last week, Clinton surpassed his predecessor. But in the First Lady frequent-flyer contest, peripatetic Hillary wins by many a mile over Barbara Bush, who was a veritable domestic shut-in. A comparison of the foreign trips each has headed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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