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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University complains that Green Lights is too complicated or labor-intensive to execute, it will have to explain how 753 participants-including Brandeis, Tufts, Brovin, Columbia, and a number of other colleges--managed to profit from joining Green Lights. The program has even offered to work out various finance options for start-up costs. It has an updated financing directory which lists sources of third-party and "shared-savings" capital from outside firms...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: A Green Light to the Environment | 2/24/1993 | See Source »

Ranking Puzzle: Explain this--a team tied for fifth in the ECAC is now ranked 10th in the nation. That's fifth, behind unranked Yale and Brown and tied with unranked St. Lawrence and Vermont...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Two Crimson Wins | 2/24/1993 | See Source »

Shifting her focus to last year's "insurrection in Los Angeles," Waters said she often tries to explain to outsiders the anger in her community. But "some people just don't get it," she said, citing radio and television show host Rush Limbaugh...

Author: By Margaret C. Boyer, | Title: Waters Speaks on Los Angeles | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

Complexity theory may explain nature's rich diversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Revenge, soaked in hatred and hormones, may explain some of the Soviet troops' behavior. But it is not a good all-purpose explanation. Revenge -- which in the Nazi-Soviet context perversely takes on the color of almost a kind of brutal justice -- does not explain Nanjing in 1937. The Chinese had not committed atrocities against the Japanese people when the Japanese marched into Nanjing and raped -- and often murdered -- tens of thousands of Chinese women. Nor can revenge entirely explain the behavior of Pakistani troops who in 1971 raped more than 250,000 Bengali women and girls in Bangladesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unspeakable: Rape and War | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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