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...annual extravaganza of final club punch season has drawn to a close. Gone, until next year, are the packs of sophomore guys running around in suits, unable to tell you exactly where they're going. Gone are the mysteriously fancy envelopes, delivered at all suspicious hours of the night. As a new class of male undergraduates begin their lifelong relationships with these oft-discussed institutions, it seems like an appropriate moment for a few words of (inevitably unwanted) advice. Final club members, I'm talking...

Author: By Jody H. Peltason, | Title: To the Punch Class of 1999: Just Try To Maintain Some Perspective | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Asian American Association (AAA) sponsored the event, dubbed the Cultural Extravaganza, with numerous other Asian campus groups...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Draws 150 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...this heady mix of circus and educational extravaganza that draws visitors to a spectacular new science center that opened last week in Columbus, Ohio. Called COSI (Center of Science and Industry), the $125 million facility is a jewel of innovation--a place that its president, former space-shuttle astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, says "persuades people that the words science, learning and fun actually do belong in the same sentence." The anchor for a $2 billion downtown economic-redevelopment program, the complex occupies a 17-acre site along the Scioto River in a once blighted neighborhood that is already brimming with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kingdom Of Learning | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

Tomorrow's events include "Thousand-Sticker Extravaganza" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the science center, a viewing of the A&E biography of Bill Bradley at 6 p.m. in Mather House senior common room, and a poster-making party from 8-11 p.m. in Leverett House junior common room...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Bill Bradley Week' Promises Fun and Games | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

Salem's Halloween extravaganza--the town also hosts events for the whole month leading up to Halloween--is an odd commentary on how we relate to the past. To some extent, people come to Salem for nothing more than the spectacle of seeing so many other people in costume. But the history of the place feeds into the celebration here so intimately that the holiday banners hanging from lampposts in the center of town are decorated with the silhouettes of witches on broomsticks. Even during the off-season, Salem's Main Street is lined with witch-themed shops...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: In Salem, A Skewed History Lesson | 11/2/1999 | See Source »

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