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...YORK--Harvard's capital campaign has raised $2.325 billion--three months before its scheduled end and $225 million in excess of the goal the University set for itself more than five years ago. But the University plans to continue fundraising in campaign mode until its slated conclusion...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller and James Y. Stern, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: University Exceeds $2.1B Campaign Goal | 10/7/1999 | See Source »

...some of the subtlest humor anywhere: news anchor Kent Brockman announces that 38 million American are obese and adds "Put together, this excess blubber would be enough to fill up the Grand Canyon two fifths of the way up. This might not sound very impressive, but keep in mind this is a very large canyon...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: Twilight of the Simpsons | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...audience, five of us on stage, we've got enough weed and beer to keep this motha going all night...Let's have a good time! I miss the days of girls just running up...no one says "Show me your [breasts] anymore." There's no more unnecessary excess of women and booze backstage. It pisses me off, because that's what I though being a rock star was about, not "We got tofu on the deli tray." I want to hear somebody bitch and whine because they lost an eight-ball of coke behind their couch, not "Who drank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Eating Pop? Notes From The Underground | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...IPOP is effectively an ordinance that prohibits any project in excess of 50,000 square feet from getting a building permit. Exceptions would be made for buildings that get exemptions from the city's Planning Board that say they will not be a traffic headache, Winters said...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Considers Healy Contract | 9/15/1999 | See Source »

This spring the rapper MA$E gave up singing about the glories of excess to devote himself to the glory of God. Now the 20-year-old has decided to add homework to the Lord's work and enrolled as a student at Clark Atlanta University. A protege of Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy), Ma$e sold 3 million copies of his 1997 album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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