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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter, published on the Internet and as a full-page advertisement in last Thursday's Washington Post, said these curricula lack mathematical substance and do not teach basic mathematics skills...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Professors Criticize New Math Curricula Report | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Your editorial about MIT fraternities, "Mistake after Mistake"(Editorial, Nov. 5) was a travesty. In addition to only showing one side of the story, it contained several pointless insults directed at MIT that lack relevance or journalistic maturity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...fully compliant with the Sun standards, is needed to take full advantage of the Windows functions 85 percent of the world's PC users are targeted for. In addition, the condescending treatment of Microsoft's competitors, often beaten not through superior product but by exclusionary licensing techniques, reveals a lack of knowledge of how the workings of the computer industry functions. The writer assumes that companies survive entirely on the merits of their products, swallowing the Microsoft line completely, while not realizing that it is the tactics Microsoft practices which make it a monopoly, not the vertical integration of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...acquired most of his works from the 1940s to the 1970s, a period when few scholars knew or cared about Islamic art. Due to the lack of interest, Welch acquired his large collection, particularly the drawings, for less than he would have spent to buy European works...

Author: By Rachel V. Zabarkes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sackler Museum Receives 300 Works | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

There was no lack of experiment and soul searching in these years. While Warhol was spinning out his sops to celebrities in sycophantic portraits and the swooning talkfests that filled his gossip sheet Interview, much of American art seemed largely earnest--as if it were a vast machine spitting out proof after proof of the solution to what art should mean as war, protest, the surge of feminism and the pulse of disco played themselves out on the nation's stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Creative Chaos | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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