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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETIMES, changes for the better come easily. Even at Harvard. The Standing Committee of the Core Curriculum decided last week to grant Literature and Arts B credit to students who took the earlier incarnation of the Core version of Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors." Taught by Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, the course was designed to serve as an introduction to jazz for non-concentrators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Credit is Due | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...defiance of his orders. Once there, Jerry manages to convince everyone that Gino is a mafia don--so important that you should feel ashamed if you have to ask who he is--and suddenly, Gino and Jerry find themselves VIP guests with a spacious hotel suite and an unlimited credit line at a Tahoe casino. This inner plot hinges on the question of how long Gino can keep up the deception, a feat made all the more difficult when Gino meets a real don (Prosky...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Where the Snide Talk Ends | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

Having taken the course last spring, I had suddenly picked up a Core credit in Literature and Arts B by doing little more than flipping through the course catalog. It guess it was inevitable that Harvard would prevent anything that logical and generous from ever happening...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Jazzing Up the Core | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...Core Curriculum subcommittee had decided that Core credit would be granted only to those who took the new course, Lit and Arts B-71, "Jazz: An American Music"--and not to those who had taken Music...

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Jazzing Up the Core | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...margin requirements on the use of credit to make investments should be uniform for options, futures and their underlying securities. For any of these instruments, investors should have to put up at least 50% of the purchase price. Current margins range from 50% for stocks to as little as 5% for some types of futures. Speculation will be dampened if speculators have more of their own capital at risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: The Crash, One Year Later | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

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