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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good movie made. With or without Travolta, though I'm sure he'll do it." The question of the day for Leonard's touring pals is more along the lines of "with or without the Coyotes." But for now, they can at least bask in the crime czar's limelight. And Leonard seems to be enjoying himself as well. After all, he did confess, "I have always thought I would love to be a rock star for about 48 hours. That's about all I could handle...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, | Title: ELMORE LEONARD | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

Former treasurer of the Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall...

Author: By Anna L. Malsberger, | Title: know your ho-co | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...good movie made. With or without Travolta, though I'm sure he'll do it." The question of the day for Leonard's touring pals is more along the lines of "with or without the Coyotes." But for now, they can at least bask in the crime czar's limelight. And Leonard seems to be enjoying himself as well. After all, he did confess, "I have always thought I would love to be a rock star for about 48 hours. That's about all I could handle...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, | Title: The Odd Couple | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

When all else fails, call the Professor of Love. Irving Singer '48, professor in the Philosophy and Linguistics Department at MIT, is academia's love czar, having published numerous books concerning the history and nature of love: love in the operas of Mozart and Beethoven, the pursuit of love, and human sexuality. Since 1958, Professor Singer has been lecturing at MIT on the philosophy of love...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Of Life and Love | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

...sexual abuse.) Several new books, including Michael Massing's The Fix, point out that the tough-on-drugs policies of the past 15 years haven't had much impact on the heart of the drug problem, abuse by long-term urban addicts. Even the usually hard-line drug czar Barry McCaffrey has written that "we can't incarcerate our way out of the drug problem." He has urged Congress to reduce mandatory minimums for crack, which are currently 100 times as heavy as those for powdered coke and impact most on minority youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Get-Tough Policy That Failed | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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