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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...designated if he/she remembers anything. Recent grads may become historians if they, say, remember the '80s. You can appear on your own cable channel, and rake in big fees on the lecture circuit. But you will have the most fun simply making up history. Who will correct you? Did somebody say "Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commencement Speech: Get A Job | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Gaff Topsails offers few clear judgmentsabout the contradictions that fill its pages andwhich of the many perspectives is correct. It doesnot define the iceberg as a symbol of salvation ordamnation, but rather shows it as both, acathedral of blue ice and a treacherous perilwhose exact scope cannot be fathomed. If only forits descriptive power, the book is a deeplymesmerizing celebration of ambiguity and of theundeniable good in every conception

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Responding to the Call of the Great Blue | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...society, we have not yet reached the point where this is possible. While our public culture exposes politically correct views of tolerance, all too often, people still privately harbor archaic ideas about sexual norms which restrict the opportunity for necessary communication about life-and-death health issues. If we are effectively to confront the danger to our community posed by these problems, we must begin with an open and honest discussion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Wake-Up Call | 5/13/1998 | See Source »

...point, Danilewitz is correct. Both of us have a strong commitment to diversifying The Crimson's editorial page. As Danilewitz noted, we pointed in our position papers to the fact that 80 percent of the columnists last year were Jewish as evidence that The Crimson's editorial page did not adequately reflect the diversity of opinion on campus. But Danilewitz fails to mention that we also pointed to the fact that the number of columnists who were female, non-white or science majors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Our Readers | 5/13/1998 | See Source »

...correct this mistake, Einstein added a term to his equations that he called the "cosmological constant." This constant altered his equations to show that the universe would expand for a while and then stay relatively the same size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Universe Will Continue Expanding | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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