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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Also, of course, we've gotten a bunch of letters. As I promised last time, these letters will often form the basis of these columns, so keep them coming. Throwing out those few pathetic letters that had the hubris to take issue with my summer picks and pans in the last installment, I chose one particularly interesting letter, from Ed. Ed (not his real name) writes: "Dear Moviegoer. I have a problem. I take my dates to the movies all the time, and then nothing ever happens. No sparks, no true love, no nothing Aren't the movies supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Responding to Ed | 9/30/1994 | See Source »

...Even if I had gotten a better offer from another school, I still wouldn't have gone there," said Mike Mladineo...

Author: By Jeff Beals, | Title: U.S. News: Harvard Fifteenth Best Value | 9/28/1994 | See Source »

...brief review of history is helpful to understand how Harvard has gotten lost on the way to providing undergraduate education. Under President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, Harvard's curriculum changed from historic humanistic breadth to an elective system of instruction. Fields of concentration and distribution requirements were started in the era of President A. Lawrence Lowell. Next came President James Bryant Conant '14, who implemented the General Education program...

Author: By William H. Chrisman, | Title: A Problem at Harvard's Core | 9/27/1994 | See Source »

Countless curious callers querying Harvard operators for student phone numbers this year have either gotten last year's listing or, almost worse, been passed on to the Registrar's Office...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: *TELEPHONE TRAVAILS* | 9/27/1994 | See Source »

...handy emotional vaccine. But that coldness can take a personal toll; and at worst, the day's violence bleeds into the home. In a study by Arizona State University sociologist Leanor Boulin-Johnson of 728 officers in two East Coast departments, some 40% responded that "they had gotten out of control and behaved violently against their spouse and children." Last week in Alexandria, Louisiana, deputy sheriff Paul Broussard shot his estranged wife Andrea five times because she was filing for divorce. He fled across the street to a bank, still waving his gun, as police moved in and sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Officers on the Edge | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

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