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...March, 1992 fifteen students staged a sit-inat Fried's office protesting his allegedlydiscriminatory views on minority hiring practices.The sit-in occurred at a time when law schoolstudents were pressuring the administration todiversify the faculty...
...quick pre-dawn raid Japanese police stormed the Boeing 747 where an unidentified hijacker had held 365 hostages for fifteen hours. The hijacker was rapidly subdued, and only one woman was hurt in the attack. Officials initially said the hijacker was amember of the Aum Shinrikyocult and had threatened to blow up the plane ifcult leader Shoko Asahara was not immediately released, but those reports were later denied. It is not yet known whether the hijacker, who used an ice-pick in the attack, also had a bomb...
...1990s: Is it better to be hip than smart? And of course, it is far better to be hip than smart. What they should have asked was, why is it better to be hip than smart? The Esquire editors had Jerry Seinfeld on their cover, but really, Fifteen Minutes (FM), The Crimson's weekly magazine which chronicles the feats and foibles of students here, could just as easily have been on their mind...
...teeth gnashing over memories of the low-fat plum pudding bars and fish pizzaiola which Harvard Dining Services purveys. We are easily stupefied by the most clever publication around. Like the couple in Don Delillo's White Noise, who make love only in the "style" of a certain century, Fifteen Minutes encourages us to revel in the pop cultural dross of Americana. What accounts for this phenomenon? How did it all happen...
...were not for the war I might have gone straight to grad school and pursued an academic career," he wrote. "Instead I joined a Buddhist monastery, then a Hindu monastery. Fifteen years later I returned to graduate school, got my Ph.D. in history of religions and mostly by chance ended up back at Harvard in a mostly administrative positions at the Center for the Study of World Religions...