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Word: ideas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assist the students in "maxing out," Harvard has come up with the idea of the fourth meal. Details are still being worked out, but something served "warm and fresh" around midnight seems to be the best suggestion for keeping these future captains of industry plugging along until morning...

Author: By Martha Ackmann, | Title: A Fourth Meal to Fuel More Work | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

Katerina's story started, "The soldier has too many clothes," but she had no idea what to write next. The nine-year old wiggled in her chair in Vicky Valtaras' small dining room near Central Square, trying to come up with another sentence for her homework assignment. The nine-year old whined to her mother, Lowell House's principal dining hall card checker, "I don't know what to do!" Vicky calmly urged her to finish her work. "Just think about what it would feel like, and write something," she said. She spoke to her daughter with the same blunt...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: At Work, At Home With Vicky | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...representatives from Yale met with individuals from Princeton, Rutgers and Columbia to create official rules for American football; what emerged was a game more resembling traditional European football--soccer--than anything else. Harvard pursued its own idea of the sport, closer to rugby and an early version of today's American football. In any case, in 1875, The Game was played without formally established rules, complicating the final tally: While the official record shows Harvard winning by a margin of four touchdowns and four goals to nothing for Yale, The Crimson credited the margin to be five goals to nothing...

Author: By Aaron R. Cohen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Harvard-Yale Football: Who Cares | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...There's no question that his parents seemed to have had...some kind of idea [of a life in politics] for him from the beginning," Kapetan says...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...hemorrhage is that benefitting consumers through constant innovation in a fluid market is wrong. And this blatantly contradicts the rationale of antitrust itself. So much so, in fact, that it becomes quite clear His Majesty's inquest is not about delineating general guidelines. It is about destroying the very idea of general guidelines...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: In Defense of the Microsoft Monopoly | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

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