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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to believe that affirmative action may actually be doing something right: ensuring that the best guy gets the job, regardless of that guy's race or sex. Eventually, when the occupational hierarchy is so thoroughly integrated that it no longer makes sense for our subconscious minds to invest the notion of competence with a particular skin color or type of genitalia, affirmative action can indeed be cast aside like training wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLANET OF THE WHITE GUYS | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...appear in the space of a semester in a House, and conspiracy theorists are not tempered by Irv Devore's Science B-29 explanations. "Definitely something in Mather is making all the tutors have babies," explained Gomez. "We think it's something in the water." Another good reason to invest in that Britta purifier. Barring that, a Mather House Nursery...

Author: By Pooja Bhatia, | Title: Babes in Jockland | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...Cuba had signed deals for 185 foreign joint ventures. The Spaniards and Germans were among the first to invest in tourism, which grew at an annual rate of 17% between 1991 and 1993; now interest is rising in Canada and across Europe. Meanwhile, the Monterrey-based magnate Javier Garza-Calderon of Mexico's Grupo Domos bought up half the Cuban phone system in a $1.5 billion deal last year. June saw the arrival of Cuba's first foreign financial institution, the Dutch ING Bank. British companies are looking into oil exploration--even though France's giant Total has recently pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPEN FOR BUSINESS | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...about cheeze labels like "gen-x" or "glam rock" or "punk as fuck"--this trend crosses such petty verbal boundaries. I would suggest that the truly stylin' toss the CK One, grow out that short bleached and cropped hair, stop saving up for the perfect black penny loafers and invest in the single item which apparently rocks the Harvard fashion scene: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Weber suggested the University invest in a marley--a performance surface which could be placed on top of the wood surface--for performances. A marley would cost Harvard about $1000, she said. The group rented such a surface for its last performance...

Author: By Eric S. Bassin, | Title: Lowell Hall's Dance Floor Damaged | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

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