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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she didn't gain a permanent faculty position, many of her students said they were greatly disappointed. Last month, Vi T. Ngyuen '98, a student in Fitzpatrick's History 1637, spearheaded a student petition drive protesting the University's decision to refuse her tenure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fitzpatrick Will Stay Through Spring Semester | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...Speaker and the House ethics committee. And in a written statement released on Saturday, Gingrich made a dramatic admission: "In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the [ethics] committee, but I did not intend to mislead...I did not seek personal gain, but my actions did not reflect creditably on the House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE APOLOGY STRATEGY | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...whom the family reportedly met while he was working in a beauty salon, is practically a Minnesota law-enforcement celebrity. He is known, says an officer, "to every police department in the state as a pretty heavy shoplifter." Or maybe just a pretty one: he sometimes cross-dressed to gain entry to women's changing rooms in exclusive stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEY DIDN'T PAY RETAIL | 12/23/1996 | See Source »

...hope to gain better insight into the gypsy culture and myself through this experience," he said...

Author: By Jessica H. Fong, | Title: Five Seniors Awarded Rockefeller Fellowship | 12/17/1996 | See Source »

...Guyana) work done regularly for private gain using employer's equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 16, 1996 | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

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