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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Debate at the State House is brewing over how many charter schools Massachusetts should have--currently, there are 34. For its advocates, Banneker--and other charter schools--exemplifies how schools can escape bureaucracy and foster solutions to students' specific needs...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Charter Against Bureaucracy | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...course, having his two brothers around certainly helps foster enthusiasm. His love for his older brothers is something an ancient Chinese poet could appreciate...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Gets Some Moores | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...captain Jessica Larson and senior defenseman Gina Foster came up big in the backfield, holding the Tigers...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Solidifies No. 1 Standing in Ivies | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...show's pilot. ("No gay man had hair like Will's, really long in the back," jokes Seomin. "He looked like Jerry Seinfeld.") Certainly much of the biting banter and in-jokes of W&G--"I haven't seen a kiss that uncomfortable since Richard Gere and Jodie Foster in Sommersby"--would be unimaginable in the era of Three's Company's fairy jokes. Some shows even cultivate what you might call a gay sensibility. HBO's heterosexual (and how) sitcom Sex and the City regularly broaches sexual gray areas, taking the perspective, less broadly embraced among straights, that sexuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: TV's Coming-Out Party | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...known examples of apologetically inspired fictionalization: the canonical Gospels. Krauthammer's examples of "brazen confabulators who make up their histories and the slavish academics who justify them" are simply following the examples of the ancient Evangelists and the modern Evangelicals. What goes around comes around. THOMAS W. HALL JR. Foster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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