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Loosely based upon The Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard, the 272-page book covers the history of Radcliffe as well as the academic, extracurricular and social experiences of women. It also includes a compendium of women’s resources and examines issues like women’s rates of tenure at the University...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Guide More Than A Year Behind Schedule | 10/18/2001 | See Source »

...When asked by The Crimson whether he learned anything from the report, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said in an e-mail, “I thought that the best part was the compendium of descriptions and contact information for women’s groups, which is what constitutes most of the brochure...

Author: By Juliet J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report: College Women Need More Support | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html TALL TALES Read the original story of Hamlet - it's weird! - and find a Japanese Cinderella from this exhaustive compendium of legends and myths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best of the Web | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Both Joplin and Nyro (who died of cancer in 1997) are back together onstage, after a fashion--each being celebrated in a new off-Broadway show. In Eli's Comin', five performers (including golden-voiced Broadway vet Judy Kuhn) wend their way through a bookless compendium of 20 of Nyro's best-known songs. Though assembled into a very loose narrative (young girl arrives in New York City; by the end she's sharing confessions with what looks like a therapy group), the show works best--marvelously--as a showcase for Nyro's idiosyncratic and influential music, a lush, emotionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Playlist Of Your Dreams | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Artemis succeeds in obtaining the Book, a compendium of fairy rules and regulations, and then breaks its arcane coded hieroglyphs with the aid of his trusty Apple PowerBook. Next, he captures a real live fairy: Holly Short, a captain in the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police reconnaissance) detail. The fairy denizens gird to rescue one of their own, and guess who wins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Case Of Fowl Play | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

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