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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, the Faculty could not explain why 7 percent of last year's graduating class received summas, almost double the proportion of the previous year's class...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank and Charles G. Kels, S | Title: Summa Degrees Will Include Elective Grades | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...Guard sources, B aur told his superiors that night that he thought he had seen a missile streaking toward the plane. The FBI insists that there is no proof of such a missile. NTSB experts say an optical illusion associated with a shooting flame from the initial spark may explain what he saw. Conspiracy theorists on the Internet and elsewhere, of course, know in their bones that the government is covering up a whopper of an explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Daily of March 12, 1997 | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

There are also attendants stationed throughout the museum who explain some of Da Vinci's other well-known interests, such as his dissections. Staff members at the museum demonstrate to visitors the dissection of sheep eyes, hearts or lungs...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

Which helps explain why Clinton and Lott regularly meet and talk on the phone and enjoy the easy rapport of two pros at the top of their game. Leon Panetta, who recently resigned as Clinton's chief of staff, said the two "like playing with each other, trying to find out as much as possible while giving as little as possible away." As in any productive negotiation, both Lott and Clinton will occasionally say, "Now, if I were to do X, what would be your response? Could you do Y?" Each man is also listening for clues to the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A LOTT LIKE CLINTON? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...themes were there from childhood, and when Whittaker Chambers went out into the history of the 20th century, he found a huge historical correlative, a macrocosm, to match--and to explain--his own biography and, he thought, to enlarge it with the prestige of destiny. Chambers' high school classmates voted him "Class Prophet." Many years later, in the '50s, after Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury and the cold war had hardened into a nuclear stalemate, Chambers wrote his summum, which he called Witness, meaning history's witness, a prophet looking backward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SUPPORTING TESTIMONY | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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