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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I started calling myself a feminist in fifth grade, one of the first decisions I made was that when I was a grown woman, I would go to work all day just like my father. I was not quite sure exactly what happened at work, but I knew exactly why I wanted to be there. My mother worked, too, but in the kitchen, in the laundry room, in the car pool line and on the phone. She did the same things over and over again each day. And even though she seemed to genuinely enjoy her work, I couldn...

Author: By Corinne E. Funk, | Title: Becoming a Homemaker--Slowly | 6/28/1996 | See Source »

...these shows attempt to combine music-video artiness (think jumpy film-to-video cuts) with a veneer of semiupscale erotic swank (think Bob Guccione's bachelor pad). You can tell they offer a somewhat better grade of porn than the local adult video store because they don't star actors named Long or Chesty; instead they feature respectable, if not always heavily-employed, talents like Emily Lloyd and Julian Sands, who played the aforementioned George. Red Shoe Diaries is narrated by X-Files star David Duchovny, who has hosted the series since it first aired, pre-X-Files, four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: NOW, THE SEX FILES | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...matter what kind of formal structure you have in place," says summa nominee Bert I. Huang '96, "there's still a good deal of judgment on the part of the department.... Primarily [the thesis grade] depends on who your readers are and what your particular approach...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: * WITH * HIGHEST HONORS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

Faculty members evaluate all of the departments' recommended candidates and then inspect transcripts which contain records of all grades, not only those in concentration courses. They also discuss such factors as grade point average cutoff, a salient issue since mean grades can sometimes vary from department to department...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: * WITH * HIGHEST HONORS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...pretty sure [that I won't]," she says, "because my general grade point average is not high enough...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: * WITH * HIGHEST HONORS | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

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