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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seem trivial and perhaps even silly, but meeting and noticing and appreciating and making a friend, completely apart from a Harvard extracurricular activity, well, it is a rare moment I cherish. I was made to feel special and valuable. And noticing the brightly beaming smile--one that exuded pure joy--I cannot think of anything I really love more. Since early freshman year, how many such moments have there been...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, | Title: With Frank, Always | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...penalized for mourning his sister. Few figures in Exodus are as vividly drawn, if infrequently featured, as Miriam. It is she who, as a child, saw to it that Pharaoh's daughter temporarily returned Moses to his natural mother to be breast-fed; it is Miriam who danced for joy at the crossing of the Red Sea. She is one of only four women the Hebrew Bible describes as a prophetess. Moses clearly loves her. At one point, she and Aaron complain about Moses' marriage to a "Cushite," which some scholars believe meant a black woman. But when the siblings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...Tears of joy welled up in my eyes" as I perused Adam I. Arenson's editorial this past Friday ("The Joy of Cookies," 12/4). Finally, I thought, a true food-snob sympathizer! My high school friends, having grown up with delicacies from my mother's kitchen, were well-acquainted with my food snobbery; instead of asking what I was going to major in at college, most people asked what I was going to eat. How well they predicted the inadequacy of dorm food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebrating Food Snobbery | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

...quite reached the palate-pleasing plateau upon which Adam and I reside. (Perhaps our mutual Southern Californian heritage explains our food snobbery?) But at least now roommates, blockmates, and random acquaintances all eagerly anticipate my mother's packages. I want Adam to know that a few Cantabrigians understand the joy of cookies and uphold the Banner of the Gourmet in his absence. MARY-BETH A. MUCHMORE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebrating Food Snobbery | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

Scott Adams is the creator of Dilbert, author of The Joy of Work and an executive producer of the forthcoming Dilbert animated TV series

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gene Fool | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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