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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during 1989-90, 21 percent were charged out to officers; students as a whole accounted for 70 percent of overdues. These numbers support the concern we share with Mr. Staines that officers are over-represented in the overdue portion of the circulation file; at the same time, they should correct the impression that officers are rendering large parts of the collection inaccessible to students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamont Reply on Overdue Books | 10/23/1990 | See Source »

...want to bring to your attention a recent ugly and intolerable incident. There seem to be people here who have more in common with the illustrious Jesse Helms than they'd ever imagine. They evidently believe their views are absolutely correct and supremely higher than everyone else's, to the point of falling in with the censorship agenda of the senator and his neo-Nazi friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pro-Life Voice Squashed | 10/18/1990 | See Source »

...Mexico has, as the flacks say, an "image problem" in the U.S.: people think of drugs and corruption. Moreover, norteamericanos in general are abysmally ignorant of Mexican culture, its immense age, its stylistic types, its myths and its rich confluences. It makes good diplomatic sense to use one to correct the other. With the Columbian quincentennial of 1992 just 14 months away and the economic prestige of America battered by Japan, Germany and a general revival of Europe under the sign of the Common Market, it is time to look for alliances closer to home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Onward From Olmec: Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

...folks at Pensinsula rail against the "Dominion of the politically correct." Well what about the socially correct and its estranged cousin, the socially incorrect (see dweeb, nerd, Quadling, etc.)? At least political thought is based on some semblance of reason. Who came up with the ever-powerful list of social...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: A Song of Selsun Blues | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

...There's a difference between what is legally right and what is morally correct," said Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a noted civil liberties expert. "There is no question that Harvard is wrong... The legacy admissions just perpetuates racism...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: Ed. Department Clears Harvard | 10/6/1990 | See Source »

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