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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. says watching movies helps him in his academic work. Many weekends, he watches four movies--one Friday night, one Saturday afternoon, one Saturday night and another on Sunday. Last weekend, he saw Living Out Loud...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out MUCH? | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Stanford University professor Clayborne Carson read excerpts from his new book, which he described as an autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr., in a speech last night at the Barker Center...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: King Historian Introduces His New 'Autobiography' | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...will come to your neighborhood is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, demand is building as more Americans get spoiled by fast Web access at work. They would love to have the same thing at home--for online investing, say, or helping the kids find video clips of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches for their homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Waiting on the Web | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...subsidy points up one of the hidden consequences of all corporate welfare--it favors one group of businessmen over another. In this case, the government gives Western farmers an advantage over Eastern farmers, who pay for their own wells, pumps and lakes. Says Dave Sheppard Jr., a fourth-generation farmer who grows tomatoes, green peppers, iceberg lettuce and cucumbers on 1,200 acres in Cumberland County, N.J.: "We don't get any subsidies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Fantasy Islands | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

From this world-premiere, Allanbrook Jr. plans to continue his work with the opera by recording it in January with Mapleshade Records, and possibly by staging repeat performances during the summer festival season. Talking about the work, John Allanbrook said he doesn't "think anyone else writes like that; you might compare it to Hindemith because it has a lot of counterpoint, but it has a much sweeter tonality--all these things interlocking." Perhaps the uniqueness of the sound, and the connections it makes will allow it to be the "moderately preformed opera in the American circuit" that Allanbrook Jr...

Author: By Carla A. Blackmar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ETHAN FROME | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

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