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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...college teacher, I've long held that no person in power should demand sexual favors in return for a high grade or promotion. Nor should subordinates sexually involved with teachers or managers enjoy an unfair advantage over their peers. Those principles are a genuine contribution to feminist history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: A Call for Lustiness | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...court prostitute, McCormack leads a well-assembled cast in this slightly flawed--yet worth seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and make it shine. Marc P. Resteghini...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...Part of the need for tutors is what I call the 'Algebra Gap,'" said Riley. "Only 23% of eighth graders take this gateway course [algebra], and in order to improve education and raise the scores of our eighth grade and twelfth grade students, algebra is a must...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Riley Outlines Education Reforms | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

Lawrence Okrent, who taught high school mathfor several years, said by the time David was ineleventh grade, "he knew everything I had everseen...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Junior Dies; Found Stabbed At Revere Beach | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...mayor, whose tight-lipped administration keeps basic information about city services out of the hands of pesky reporters and government watchdogs. "I'm not ashamed," said Rafael Martinez Alequin of the monthly Free Press. "I know, that's the problem," scolded the mayor, who never really left seventh grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizzoner The Hall Monitor | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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