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On favoritism for siblings, FM spoke to Marlyn McGrath Lewis ’70-’73, director of admissions and Don Vito Corleone, as the case may be. She explained that the business of sibling admissions is less clear cut than the system for legacies. �...

Author: By Scott G. Bromley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Harvard Mafia: Siblings Kill to Join the Family in Cambrdige | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

Another dismally awe-inspiring legacy of our 20th century obsession with water development has been the gradual disappearance of southern Louisiana. When the first irrigated civilizations were appearing in contemporary Iraq and Pakistan about 5,000 years ago, the Gulf of Mexico was roughly where New Orleans now sits. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unleash the Rivers | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

When Bob Hunter, right, and Paul Watson joined buddies in Vancouver in 1971 to protest U.S. nuclear testing in the Arctic, they didn't realize they were setting off their own explosion. Calling themselves Greenpeace, the Canadians went on to stage demonstrations against sealing and whaling, all with media-savvy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century Of Heroes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Like Lynne, Case was born in Virginia, where she grew up listening to Patsy Cline and developed a powerful sympathy for working folks. She recently relocated to Chicago from Seattle because, she says, "all there is in Seattle anymore is money. What I do isn't popular in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blows Against The Empire | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

If Natsios wishes to succeed in the area of public confidence and trust, where Kerasiotes failed, he must follow through on this commitment. While Kerasiotes achieved a superb safety record and received praise for successful traffic abatement efforts, he left a far more damaging legacy: he turned a public project...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Digging Out of the Big Dig | 4/19/2000 | See Source »

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