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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard education is a gift (and I think it is), then it is also a responsibility. I think most of us feel that responsibility even now. Phillips Brooks House is easily the largest organization on campus, with about one fifth of the student body participating in its programs. And the number of students who opt to defy Harvard's covert and not-so covert attempts to point all of us toward careers in consulting and investment banking in favor of jobs "with a conscience" is fast rising...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: A Teacher Learns a Lesson of His Own | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Last night more than 90 people attended a screening of Ermo, a satire about a peasant woman obsessed with owning the largest television set in her village. The film won Zhou international acclaim...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chinese Director to Speak After Harvard Preview of New Film. | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...fairy godmother turned out to be Seaboard Corp., a giant of agribusiness with headquarters in Merriam, Kans., and controlled out of Chestnut Hill, Mass. Seaboard officials announced that they would restart the shuttered pork-processing plant that had once been the town's largest employer--if the city offered a little help. Albert Lea responded by giving Seaboard a $2.9 million low-interest loan and a special deal on its sewer bill and grading and paving parking lots for employees. And before long, the plant reopened, and several hundred workers were back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks said it was "by far the largest offer in the history of the organization." Johnson declined to comment on the offer, The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Texas Offers Big Unit Big Bucks | 11/25/1998 | See Source »

...done terrible damage to the Turkish state. He's seen here as a killer of babies, and they can't understand why a European country would offer him sanctuary." Despite its outrage, it looks as if there's not much Turkey can do to put pressure on its third-largest trading partner. After all, countries with real leverage don't ask its citizens to visit the post office and send a nasty fax to Rome free of charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey-Italy Standoff Continues | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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