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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard to be challenged and proven against the mettle of the very best and to ride away into the world redeemed and self-satisfied by the experience. Their achievement was measured in wealth and prestige, in artistic and academic fame and in the myriad fields in which humans could excel...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Putting a Human Face on Harvard | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...best thing a student movement can do is get the faculty on its side," says DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. Gates says he supports establishing departments in two or three areas in which Harvard can excel, rather than forming a single ethnic studies department...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: Still Demanding Ethnic Studies Now | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...majors might find the battle a little silly--both companies are spending millions of dollars developing products they largely give away. But it shows the importance of dominating an industry: almost every IBM-compatible computer comes with DOS and Windows, and many have application programs, like Word and Excel...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 4/30/1996 | See Source »

...likened my feelings to those at the end of a relationship. He claims that I do not want to rebuild too extensively for fear of losing it all again. So, for now, I guess that I won't be re-installing the bartending program, or Tetris, or even Excel. I have not even changed my sound back to the familiar "quack" from the default "simple beep." I am just too emotional right now to get too attached again...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Alas, Poor Computer | 4/16/1996 | See Source »

...there have quadrupled to 18 tons of cocaine annually. Today the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration believes that more than 100 major traffickers are using the islands as storage and distribution points for both U.S. and European markets. In one of those ironies of interconnectedness the modern world seems to excel at, while the tourists are getting away from it all, the cocaine is flowing back to further blight what they're trying to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARIBBEAN BLIZZARD | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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