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Those who find it difficult to subtract four-digit numbers may wish to bring a calculator, or at least scratch paper, to the Museum of Fine Arts' exhibition "Picasso: the Early Years." Even easier, however, is to eavesdrop as visitors whisper to each other while subtracting 1881, the year of Picasso's birth, from the date of a painting's execution. The solutions are often unbelievably small...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Portrait of a Cubist as a Young Man | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...BEDFORD-Sixty miles south of Boston, this city of blue collar workers, crumbling textile mills and double-digit unemployment rates has long been a stomping ground for the state's Democratic party...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bay State Democrats Search the Party's Soul | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Since Rudenstine became President in 1991, Harvard's tuition increases have slowed from the double digit increases students saw in the early '80s. Still, one year as a Harvard undergraduate costs about the same as a Mercedes "C" class sedan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

Since Rudenstine became President in 1991, Harvard's tuition increases have slowed from the double digit increases students saw in the early '80s. Still, one year as a Harvard undergraduate costs about the same as a Mercedes "C" class sedan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Threats to Affirmative Action and Federal Funding Force New Activism | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

...California law forbidding the use of affirmative action in state programs went into effect; movements to pass similar laws are afoot in other states and in Congress. One harbinger of that change: at state law schools in Texas and California, the end of preferences has meant classes with single-digit numbers of blacks. And as the Supreme Court prepares for next month's new session, its most anticipated case is one that could abolish affirmative action outright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THROWING THE BOOK AT RACE | 9/8/1997 | See Source »

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