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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wants to get to know the "something that doesn't want its photograph taken." She's afraid of sounding pretentious. She's afraid of coming on too strong. She is shy, whether she's crazy or not, and she paints herself as an ordinary kid, leading an ordinary life, content to spend most of her time alone. For this poet from the suburbs of America, it's the thinking that matters, not the biography...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Her Poetry Comes From Ordinary Life | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Gregory Nagy suggest that Harvard professors use the word" canon" as a catchphrase because they no longer debate or discuss what the content of a liberal arts education should...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Is the Canon Dead? | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

After a half-century, the three professors say today's undergraduate education--apart from its lack of military content--is essentially the same as that which they received...

Author: By Chris Terrio, | Title: Class Boasts Three Nobel Winners | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...heart of the case against Disney is not the fact of development but the content. Were the site slated for a new research campus for the Harvard School of Public Health with housing for several thousand (as Disney proposes), I doubt that McCullough and the other intellectuals on the committee would be in such a tizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Afraid of Virginia's Mouse? | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

Media companies Cox and Times-Mirror made it official today: they will merge their cable divisions to form the third largest operator in the country. The $2.3 billion deal will take Times-Mirror out of the cable business, focusing it on content-news, information and entertainment-rather than delivery of that material. TCI and Time Warner are the largest cable providers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABLING UP A GIANT | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

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