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...gays who had scratched their way into the city's establishment blanched when Milk announced his first run for supervisor in 1973, but Milk had a powerful idea: he would reach downward, not upward, for support. He convinced the growing gay masses of "Sodom by the Sea" that they could have a role in city leadership, and they turned out to form "human billboards" for him along major thoroughfares. In doing so, they outed themselves in a way once unthinkable. It was invigorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pioneer HARVEY MILK | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...despite the downward trend in ethnic group representation in the groups, additional figures released by the College showed a strong upward trend in the size of student blocking groups between 1996 and 1999, strengthening calls to reduce the size of the blocks...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Study Shows Students Increasingly Form Diverse Blocking Groups | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Alonzo Mourning, by all accounts the most deserving MVP candidate in the league, watched Houston's desperation attempt drop downward toward the paint. Mourning blossomed under Pat Riley's tutelage into one of the NBA's finest all-around centers, and almost single-handedly carried the Heat to the best record in the East...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...fresher than the younger ones. We are used to seeing endless reproductions of de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko--but not of Elie Nadelman, Arthur Dove or Joseph Stella. Because of this contrast, the top two floors of the show--it starts at the top and, taking advantage of gravity, goes downward--seem more interesting than the third. That's not the art's fault, but it goes a long way toward fixing the imbalance in Americans' views of their own past art--a bias summarized in the silly idea that American modernism was creeping around in larval form until after World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Nation's Self-Image | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

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