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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While they sit there and get larger and larger in number and angrier and angrier in despair," Silbert said. "We keep creaming the crop...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Silbert: Educate Ex-Convicts | 4/14/1993 | See Source »

...officers currently on the force who were hired by Johnson during his tenure at Harvard, two are Black, four are women, and one is Asian-American. But until last year's crop of new officers, the Harvard police had no more Black officers on the force then when Johnson first became chief...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Embattled Chief | 4/9/1993 | See Source »

...Relating that to literature, what do you think of the new crop of Latina writers like Sandra Cisneros and Cristina Garcia...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Of Mambo and Magical Realism | 4/8/1993 | See Source »

...athletics department's undue influence on college life extends to acadernics. Hundreds of athletes cannot take afternoon classes because of daily practice. Athletes often begrudge the trade-off and who can blame them? Many seminars, tutorials, and sections--the cream of the Harvard crop--take place in the afternoon...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Skewed Priorities | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...Boeing or even an industry, but to a particular profession or skill. It takes a high level of education to succeed in such a free-flowing environment. We are going to be moving from job to job in the same way that migrant workers used to move from crop to crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disposable Workers | 3/29/1993 | See Source »

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