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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot meet their "needs," even on healthy middle-class salaries. Over the last few decades, wants have become needs with great rapidity. Harvard, it seems, is experiencing the same phenomenon. Dean Knowles includes improving "athletics" and "the Houses" among the many "needs" Harvard has. As much as we may complain about the Malkin Athletic Center and the crummy Leverett lighting, we don't need to improve them...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Think Twice Before Giving | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

This past week, a friend asked me, in one of those proverbial shuttle-ride-to-the-Quad conversations, if I knew that I was doing next year. Like many of my fellow seniors, I immediately wanted to change the subject, slap the person who asked or complain that I was still waiting to hear on different options. I started my usual whiny "Oh, I don't know" response and then stopped myself, saying with some surprise, "I'm not worried. All will work out. God will provide me with something useful to do that will make me happy...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: B>Pollyanna, Call Your Office | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

This past week, a friend asked me, in one of those proverbial shuttle-ride-to-the-Quad conversations, if I knew what I was doing next year. Like many of my fellow seniors, I immediately wanted to change the subject, slap the person who asked or complain that I was still waiting to hear on different options. I started my usual whiny "Oh, I don't know" response and then stopped myself, saying with some surprise, "I'm not worried. All will work out. God will provide me with something useful to do that will make me happy...

Author: By Christa M. Franklin, | Title: Pollyanna, Call Your Office | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...ahead. So I called AAHLRSA and adopted that big slice of Los Angeles I had been coveting. Bette was very excited. "Have you ever seen the 5? The 5 is such a pit." She advised me to drive on my highway often. "You always visit your mile, and you complain, 'I want more landscaping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come Meet My Highway | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

Critics of these trials--and there are many--complain that they violate the first principle of medicine: do no harm. Surgery, even sham surgery, is never risk-free. Doeschner says his doctors told him that he might get the short end of the double-blind stick and warned him before asking for his consent that even a fake operation could leave him "a vegetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Knife, Fake Surgery | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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