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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Would it not have been fun to have spent asummer in Hawaii with my roommates? To havepersuaded Professor Riesman to supervise mythesis? To have enjoyed three years, not one anda fraction, of Crimson editing? To have had moretime for bull sessions...

Author: By Hugh Calkins, | Title: The Air We Breathed | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

...about the materials used to make the bomb. That is apparently what happened in California one morning in 1990, when a disgruntled engineer detonated a truck filled with 2,000 lbs. of his own batch of ANFO outside a branch office of the Internal Revenue Service. Fortunately, only a fraction of the compounds in the vehicle exploded, and no one was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOMB LURKING IN THE GARDEN SHED | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

...There is a tendency to forget or want to forget, particularly since genocide still happens," said George S. Schneiderman '95, who coordinated the event with Elizabeth B. Stein '95. "Jews are commanded to remember. We'll only make it through a small fraction of the six million names, but at least, they'll turn into names and not numbers...

Author: By M. ALLISON Arwady, | Title: Harvard Mourns Victims of Holocaust | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...committee would decide how to distribute the votes, whether to give each member a fraction of a vote or to have one student, if students decide to add an undergraduate member, and one faculty member not vote...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Buell Will Modify CUE Proceedings | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

...warn that it is not only an expensive but probably also an unnecessary weapon, since there are no services -- current or expected soon -- that would actually employ fiber to the home. A hybrid system of coaxial cable and fiber-optic cable does the job just as well for a fraction of the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S A WIRED, WIRED WORLD | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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