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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does a playa such a Kavazovic advise that the Harvard name be dropped? "I have an evil technique," he says excitedly as his pinkie flies to the corner of mouth, and his eyebrows arch in a pale imitation of Austen Powers' Dr. Evil. He explains. "I don't say it unless I absolutely have to. If a girl probes enough that I have to say it, that means that I already have her attention and the H-bomb takes her home...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: On the Town | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

...both events had to be canceled due to a Cambridge city ordinance forbidding "games of chance." While the events may have been cleared if no money were involved, the admission fee charged to cover the events' cost doomed the Casino Nights to their place in the category of public evil and degradation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Games of Chance' | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...order in the City of Cambridge, then the cancellation of these events is misguided at best. The entire purpose of House Committees is to organize harmless social functions--the sort of functions, one might add, that could actually keep students from doing other things that the law has deemed evil, like purchasing alcohol before living for 21 years. Despite the occasional "Debauchery Dance," House Committee events could not possibly be more innocuous. In a city fighting a daily battle against crime, drugs and poverty, doesn't the Commission have better things to do with its time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Games of Chance' | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...such character and are the drinkers and drug addicted students of today." As members of the depraved generation described, we are naturally waiting with bated breath for those law-abiding and morally sound future members of the Class of 2004 to show up and steer us away from our evil temptations. Until then, we will have to live under the regime of our generational brethren from George Orwell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Games of Chance' | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

Pontius says the hunter-gatherers saw danger lurking everywhere. "[It is] also their animalistic belief system," she says. "For them, there are evil spirits in everything they see around them...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Links Cave Paintings to Illiteracy | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

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