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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hanging in the open space are portraits of the Reverend of the First Cambridge Church Nathaniel Appleton (Class of 1712) and the Reverend's wife. Knowles says, with a wry smile, that the minister's wife (in the portrait) scares him back to work with her frown, if he should ever procrastinate...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Knowles Knows FAS | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

...hanging in the open space are portraits of the Reverend of the First Cambridge Church Nathaniel Appleton (Class of 1712) and the Reverend's wife. Knowles says, with a wry smile, that the minister's wife (in the portrait) scares him back to work with her frown, if he should ever procrastinate...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Knowles Knows FAS | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...computer may ask another. "He pays early!" the other may flash back. "Aw, c'mon," the first computer will say. "No, really! Here -- look!" Whereupon the first computer will look over the second computer's shoulder and sniff its perfume, and airline reservations clerks around the country will frown and say, "Sorry, my system just went down." All because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Amount Due? Zero, Thanks! | 6/17/1991 | See Source »

...smiling face, symbol of Czechoslovakia's Civic Forum, may be turning to a frown. Beset by internal wrangling over policy in the newly emancipated nation, the popular alliance that swept the communists out of power 15 months ago and installed dissident playwright Vaclav Havel as President is splitting into two factions, already represented in Parliament: the conservative Club of the Democratic Right (CDR) and the Liberal Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Divorce, Czech-Style | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

...same sense of the South that we had. There was a pause, and then he offered a story he thought might help frame the answer. During a recent history class, another teacher was suddenly interrupted by a student, a white Southerner, who looked up with a puzzled frown and asked, "Tell me again, which side was Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The End of the South | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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