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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't looking for a job-I was called," Shefte said. "I have no qualms about Radcliffe. I would be very content staying here for quite a while...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Loses Fourth Official In Six Months | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...Soul Asylum and the Mississippi Mass Choir do make appearances. And a few of the performers featured deserve a shot on Leno or Conan O'Brien, chief among them the spirited New Orleans hip-hop brass band Soul Rebels. Most of the acts on River of Song, however, seem content with local renown. They display a commitment that's deeper than celebrity: for them, music isn't simply a means to acquire wealth or fame; it's a method of preserving traditions and a way of life. "We, the young generation, are the glue that keeps the culture going," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sounding the Waters | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Math 55 covers the content of Math 21 with maximal generality and rigor," he says. "It is comparable to a graduate course. The types of assumptions it makes about students are more akin to graduate level than 100-level courses, which you can walk in on with no background on the material...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Math 55: Rite of Passage for Dept.'s Elite Intimidates Many | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

...online archive (at audible.com of more than 16,000 hours of audio books, radio broadcasts, lectures and daily summaries of the Wall Street Journal, then downloading selections to the MobilePlayer-PLUS from Audible in Wayne, N.J. The $300 pocket-size device comes with headphones and holds eight hours of content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Officials claimed the documents contained "explicit sexual content" which made them "inap-propriate" for an academic setting. In response, Manning filed a federal lawsuit last week claiming that her First Amendment rights to academic freedom and uncensored speech had been violated...

Author: By Alixandra E. Smith, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 12/16/1998 | See Source »

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