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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success of yesterday's event was reminiscent of an earlier effort led by Harvard students to collect Asian- American bone marrow...

Author: By Jonathan F. Taylor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bone Marrow Drive Targets Minorities | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...only flaw preventing Darabont's triumphant second effort from being perfect is the manner in which the story begins and ends. Told as a flashback by an older Edgecomb sixty years after the fact, the story opens with scenes that take place in the present. This set-up at the beginning of the film is fine, but the ending just doesn't work. Immediately after the final scene from 1935, the story shifts back to the present for a wrap-up that comes across as contrived (the same problem plagued Saving Private Ryan). Instead of ending the film...

Author: By By RICHARD Ho, | Title: A Man, a Mouse, a Mile, Panama | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Which brings me to a final point: call before you go. These spaces are lively but unstable and tend to operate improvisationally. It takes a little effort to track them down, but most are well worth the investigation...

Author: By By ANNIE Borneuf, | Title: THE FIELD GUIDE Part III: Non-Profit and Alternative Spaces | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...huge effort over the last six months [to get computer systems up to speed], bringing the last pieces of it up to code in November," he says. "And in the unlikely event that the Holyoke Center has to close due to a problem with the gas, for example, UHS will have to close down, but arrangements have been made with area hospitals to take diverted emergency cases...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Y2K Guardians: Who Will Be Here? | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

However, the university has undertaken a major effort to beef up campus security. Overtime pay for police, shriek alarms and special seminars on safety have cost over $100,000, said Barbara Pitoniak, a university spokesperson...

Author: By Graeme C. A. wood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UMass-Amherst Student Admits to Lying in Report of Campus Attack | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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