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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University and its role in the community which, for better or worse, has led to skyrocketing real estate costs near the Square. The gesture of providing a few low-income housing units for the community is an appropriate and admirable endeavor. Asking St. Paul's to pay for the units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Contemptible Bid | 3/6/1987 | See Source »

...offer off-season stimulation, and Director Peter Sellars has made a reputation scandalizing the bourgeoisie, for example, setting Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in Despina's Coffee Shop. Still, dullness prevails in the largest companies, where opera is viewed as a closed, dead art; innovation is largely a guerrilla endeavor carried on by partisans hiding out in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Three Cheers for the Partisans | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...number of other measures were not mentioned) the editorial slips into what seems a shocking paroxysm of short-term memory loss. Please allow me to remind you that in the past, on at least ten separate occasions, The Crimson has deemed that the council's most worthwhile endeavor has been the redistribution of at least two-thirds (actually over 70 percent in the last two years) of its budget back to student group in the form of grants. Now that The Crimson has finally recognized some of our other accomplishments, how is it possible that the entire editorial staff...

Author: By Richard S. Eisert, | Title: MAIL | 2/18/1987 | See Source »

...escalation does not extend to all branches of Protestantism. Until World War II, mission endeavor was ruled by boards of such "mainline" denominations, affiliated with the National Council of Churches and Canadian Council of Churches, as the United Methodist and Presbyterian churches. But these groups have lately suffered a "precipitous decline" in overseas staffs, the Handbook reports, to less than half the total in the late 1960s. Since then, the expanding Evangelical and Fundamentalist boards, mostly independent of denominational control, have all but taken over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestantism's Foreign Legion | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

Biro, a second-year student who won a $10 gift certificate to the B-School's pub for his literary endeavor, addressed his letter to "Mr. Rich Sonbitch at Dewey, Screwon & Howe...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: B-Schoolers Spoof Cover Letters | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

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