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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here to prove it. Just remember, if you see me sniffling this Thursday, in addition to the pang of nostalgia and the bitter-sweetness of moving on, it might also be in the hopes that Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 will see me, take pity and let me stay on another year or so. Luke Z. Fenchel '99, a government concentrator in Leverett House, was executive arts editor of The Crimson...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, | Title: Exiled From the Elysian Yard | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...University has been the establishment of a seven-member Faculty task force whose purpose is to "investigate the situation." While LWC members applaud the task force's apparent lack of bias and welcome the promise of an open dialogue with the University, they have no plans to let up on their crusade for public support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Raising Awareness | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Afterwards, Dean of the Faculty Franklin L. Ford '48 announced that the administrators had determined that use of the library by women did not pose any serious problems. His announcement sparked a spirited controversy, with letters to the editor back and forth persuading Lamont to let women in or "keep the girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nation's First Undergraduate Library Turns 50 | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...once asked former Miami Beach geriatric counselor Vincent Delgado to speak to an 82-year-old woman who brought young men to her apartment for sex whenever she got her Social Security checks. "She said she was going to die anyway," Delgado said, "and to leave her alone and let her enjoy life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Never Too Old | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...part of their dogma? It probably happened with the passage in 1996 of welfare reform, a law that shifted government's mission from providing for people to changing them. Included in that law, with quiet support from the White House, was an amendment by Republican Senator John Ashcroft that let churches and religious groups bid on government contracts to provide job training and other services. Since then, Gore has highlighted many of those efforts in his travels as Vice President, touting the prayer and Bible study included in a job-training program in San Antonio, Texas, and the spiritual component...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking a Leap of Faith | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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