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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After serving as an attorney in both theprivate and public sectors for over 60 years,Lumbard was content with his life's work andachievements, according to his son, although hereserved particular fondness for his years atHarvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judge J. Edward Lumbard Dies at 97 | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Well, I discovered what was coming next, and I immediately started seeing if I could still apply to other law schools. There was less intellectual content-it was a trade school, not an intellectual enterprise...

Author: By Alan Heimert, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City on a Hill: Heimert Keeps the Harvard Flame Ablaze | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...every confirmed Marxist in the Class of '49, there were at least three liberals content with being ascribed to the moderate left...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer and David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Class of 1949 Witnesses Prelude to Anti-Communist Hysteria | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Within the elysian Yard, I stroll content; I think I have gotten the hang of the "enter to grow in wisdom" part. It is at night, contemplating nothing, that I find myself wondering what will happen sometime next year if I should misplace...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: Exiled From the Elysian Yard | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...even happy to riff on his 12-year relationship with Hurley, the often scantily clad Valkyrie to whom he seems content to play the hapless chorus boy. "Elizabeth made me buy a house," he confesses, "and we spent two years having idiot, pretentious, criminal bozos decorate it. It's now completely hideous, and I'm quarreling with her because I don't want to live there. The shower smells of dead people; I hate it." Instead, he hangs out in their old flat around the corner. "I go there and watch the football and drink beer. But I think that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hugh Grant's Sorry Now | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

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