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...There is no distinct planning initiative at Harvard," Rowe says. "What role Harvard would play needs to be debated by the Harvard community at the appropriate time...

Author: By Maggie Pisacane, | Title: Boston, Harvard May Host Olympics | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

Three singers who have among the most glorious voices in pop music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Singing to a Silent Harp | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

While Gregoire discounts the racial factor, other students and faculty members claim there is a distinct prejudice in the Square...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Relations Tense Between Merchants and Minority Students | 11/5/1994 | See Source »

...game comes down to a field goal, Brown could have a distinct advantage. Bear kicker Bob Warden has had excellent accuracy, converting on eight of nine field goals attempts this season...

Author: By W. STEPHEN Venable, | Title: Gridders To Battle Mirror Image | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Spanning about 70 years, Farndon's career saw the compilation of a fairly large corpus of work. He won numerous prizes for both oil and watercolor (mostly for his oils) and made the transition between four or five fairly distinct styles with varying degrees of success. Presumably early influences (Farndon eccentrically refused to date a single canvas) can be found in the late Romantics, as evidenced in some uneventful and rather unexciting landscapes which ended up relegated to the basement of Vose galleries...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Yankee Impressed | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

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