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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ancient Rome--with a few side rips to Egypt--makes terrific fodder for Pudding material. If all else fails, after all, you can throw in a Roman numeral joke: "Take V," the taskmaster tells his crew. Or a hieroglyphic joke "Feather before squiggly line except after bird...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

There's Nero's ravenous tutor, Plato Pasta (Berman), who's busy planning his ideal Republic "with room for everybody...except for them frigging Corinthians." There's Plato's love interest Medusa Pade (Andrew Burlinson '97), a love-starved gorgon with killer head of hair...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...Except for a 40-year-old man dressed as Tonya Harding, there were no reminders of Boston, of the Northeast, of any-thing outside of Mardi Gras. It was hedonistic and loose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Booze, Beads and Blondes | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

There was no specific goal for this fundraiser, except "to raise as much money as possible," she said...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Winthrop Auctions Services | 2/23/1994 | See Source »

Upon request, the section leader allowed the entire section to turn in homework assignments from six hours to a couple of days late. There would be nothing wrong with this minor forbearance except that complete solutions to the assignments were distributed to the entire class in lecture--minutes after the problem sets were originally...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: Without Honor | 2/22/1994 | See Source »

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