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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cheers to Hughes for declaring himself a skeptic who saw only Goyaesque fantasies and nothing supernatural or divine when he was near death. Inundated as we are by the current wave of religiosity, it is refreshing to hear from an honest and rational man. JEAN AND JACK BROOKHART Huntington Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...irregulars are vulnerable too because they depend on fallible memory. If a verb declines in popularity, speakers may not hear its irregular form often enough to fix it securely in memory. They fall back on -ed, changing the language for following generations. That is why forms from Chaucer's time such as chide-chid and writhe-wrothe turned into chided and writhed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Heared a Who! | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...recent concert of the Harvard Glee Club, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth '71 says he was stunned to hear a cell phone that rang more than six times during what he calls a "particularly soft part of the music...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing Off the Hook | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

Especially in this era of House randomization, I am sure you could find someone in your entryway who holds less-open views. Would you then have the guts to hear her out and debate her, instead of rolling your eyes and walking away, muttering "bigot...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Straight-up Political Correctness | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...kind of interested to learn and hear how [Chinese universities] do these things," said Provost Harvey V. Fineberg...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Heads From China, U.S. Convene at Fogg | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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