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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for this, of course, is that the Harvard Corporation, with oversight from the appropriately named Board of Overseers, controls the weather, along with the core curriculum, the fate of football coach Tim Murphy and the nutritional content of Savory Baked Tofu...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Rainy | 9/24/1994 | See Source »

...makes a good point. In the end, adding "distinction" to "diversity" looks fairly meaningless. So don't worry: it doesn't represent any substantive change in the content of our impecable education. It's simply a matter of semantics. The revision wasn't prompted by any radical transformation taking place on this campus but by something as fickle as the personal taste of admissions officers having a gaggle of adolescent...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Debating The Distinct | 9/20/1994 | See Source »

Visual and Environmental Studies 120s. Painting with Attitude: "Designed to help students develop their own studio practice, the course addresses issues of emotional content in painting from the refined and sublime to the irreverent and annoying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Quickie Guide to Picking Courses | 9/16/1994 | See Source »

...MATHIAS RUST WANNABE? So why'd Frank Corder do it? He appeared to be depressed by the death of his father and the recent breakup of his marriage. What's clear is that he had a history of alcohol and drug abuse, and died with a .045 blood-alcohol content, just a smidgen above the legal limit for pilots. His blood also showed trace amounts of cocaine. Relatives said Corder might have had publicity in mind because he once talked admiringly of Mathias Rust's 1987 landing in Red Square. A brother reportedly was told of a suicide plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE CRASH . . . RADAR, BUT NO HEADS UP | 9/13/1994 | See Source »

...recent years, faith in activist government has declined precipitously. The cause is not just Vietnam and Watergate but rather the fateful turn liberal activism took with Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. Not content with the great middle-class programs like Medicare, Johnson launched a War on Poverty that has since poured trillions down a vast federal sinkhole, leaving little trace -- indeed coinciding with a dramatic rise in crime, homelessness and deviancy of every sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jones Beach and the Decline of Liberalism | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

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