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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Yard forever. Students and professors alike must try to promote a new academic desegregation. If, every once in a while, each English major did a few integrals and each CS major wrote a haiku or two, the result would not just be a proliferation of bad haikus and incorrect integrals, but also a more interesting intellectual environment...

Author: By David M. Weld, | Title: A House Divided | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...noted that Dershowitz's data is not necessarily incorrect despite the flaw in logic outlined above. If a sufficient percentage (namely 67 percent) of marriages involving American Jews are inter-marriages, then it would, in fact, be true that a majority of Jews are marrying outside the faith. --Jeremy L. Lizt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dershowitz Would Benefit From Math | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

...looked at each other awkwardly and about half the hands went up. I then asked those who had raised their hands how many would be prepared to tell their dormmates of their preference. A small number of hands were raised. In the language of the day, it is "politically incorrect" to insist on marrying a co-religionist. It is, however, perfectly correct to do so if it just happens that way. However, it will "just happen" that way with ever decreasing frequency...

Author: By Alan M. Dershowitz, | Title: Surviving in a P.C. World | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...were moving it out of the area that it was born in and that it characterized. And the second thing was, it was moving to a completely different venue that in one sense was the opposite of what the play was about. But that turned out to be incorrect, the move to Broadway exposed it to a much, much wider audience and gave accessibility to many more people. In retrospect, it was the absolute right decision. I mean literally, you're getting seven times the number of people to see it. It's the same cast...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: How We Gonna Pay for Rent? | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...Archie Bunker] was supposed to show how ridiculous and absurd bigoted views are," Leonard said of the show's star character who was known for making politically incorrect comments...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: John Leonard Speaks at Ed School | 3/20/1997 | See Source »

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