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...enterprising Harvard student, Parents' Weekend profits can amply compensate for the embarrassment of Dad's brown plaid pants. With a little tactical planning, this Friday and Saturday offer the perfect opportunity to convince parents to whip out their pocketbooks. A local tour is the ideal scam to exploit familial generosity to its fullest potential. (Parents "love" the Square.) So pop an aspirin, drink a glass of water and set out painfully early to ensure enough time to hit these lucrative "sights" of Harvard Square...

Author: By Allison M. Fitzgerald, | Title: Cashing In: A Parents' Weekend Pillage of the Square | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...enterprising Harvard student, Parents' Weekend profits can amply compensate for the embarrassment of Dad's brown plaid pants. With a little tactical planning, this Friday and Saturday offer the perfect opportunity to convince parents to whip out their pocketbooks. A local tour is the ideal scam to exploit familial generosity to its fullest potential. (Parents "love" the Square.) So pop an aspirin, drink a glass of water and set out painfully early to ensure enough time to hit these lucrative "sights" of Harvard square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cashing in | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

...post provides an ideal academic environment for the scholar, who has in the past taught courses on the literature of California and the literature of the American west. Handley, who was on leave during the fall term, currently teachesan undergraduate seminar on British authorVirginia Wolff...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Another English Junior Faculty Member Departs | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...efforts fell under TIME's grand tradition of group journalism," says Sancton, who knows it well, having entered his third decade with the magazine. "That approach has largely been supplanted by a system of individual writers, but there are instances--and this is one--when it is really ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contributors: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...unveiled the plan 16 years ago). Out in the Pacific, officials of the Republic of the Marshall Islands are hinting that they expect the Pentagon to pay more for its use of the Kwajalein atoll. Kwajalein's isolation and its shallow, 900-sq.-mi. lagoon have made it an ideal bull's-eye for U.S. missile tests for decades. The Pentagon has access to "Kwaj" through 2001, with a renewal option to 2016. As part of the deal, the islands get American aid. But they want more. The islanders say the $10 million they pocket each year isn't enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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