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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...100th anniversary of the first battle between the student organizations. In 1897, The Crimson felled 'HRB, 23-2. The radio station was in its first year of operation after constructing a giant smoke-signal station on the top of Apley Court, which bothered all river residents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SOFTBALLERS USE, ABUSE AND OTHERWISE DROWN OUT SO-CALLED STUDENT 'BROADCASTERS' | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

This Thursday will mark the 111th celebration of May Day in the United States. Not the festival of May poles and dancing but the holiday of red flags, clenched fists, and the spilled blood of the working class. Some call it International Workers' Holiday, and one labor giant once described May 1 as "labor day for anyone who thinks." It is a day when we cease working to remember labor's martyrs and to be thankful that we work only eight hour shifts instead of 16. We celebrate the civic and economic importance of unions and the happy fact that...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Bring Back the May Pole | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

Soros described himself as a "giant digestive tract, taking money in one end and then out the other...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: Billionaire George Soros Speaks at IOP | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

Protesters also marched to Mass. Hall with a giant check made out to Rudenstine for $0, in recognition of Harvard's "unacceptable slowness" in increasing the diversity of its faculty and curriculum...

Author: By Brendan H. Gibbon, | Title: Coalition Seeking Diversity Leads Afternoon Rally | 4/22/1997 | See Source »

Will the bug industry succeed? Last month the American Stock Exchange let investors hedge their hunches. It began trading futures options based on the 18-stock De Jager Year 2000 Index, made up of companies such as giant Dun & Bradstreet and smaller outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BIZ WATCH | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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