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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Or almost never. Last week three generations of the Shabazz family were bound into a single knot of misery. In a New York City hospital, Shabazz was in extremely critical condition with third-degree burns over 80% of her body, the result of a fire inside her Yonkers, N.Y., apartment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BETTY SHABAZZ: THE TROUBLES SHE'S SEEN | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Already 18 states have high school exit tests. National tests, endorsed by Bill Clinton and George Bush before him, will begin in 1999 with fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math. The tests are supposed to serve only as a benchmark to assess educational progress, but they could one day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TEST OF THEIR LIVES | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

Which reminds me: Spend some portion of each day studying beauty, in any form. Especially study the line, be it in Shakespeare or Conrad, or in a song by Louis or Ella, or in a drawing by Jules Feiffer or Chuck Jones. The line is the basic unit of beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPEECH FOR A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE | 6/9/1997 | See Source »

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. became chair of the Afro-American studies department in 1991, he made luring the renowned University of Chicago professor William Julius Wilson to Cambridge one of his priorities.

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Although Harvard cannot be faulted for accumulating high-profile scholars, agrees Professor Eddy L. Harris of Washington University in St. Louis, there may be harmful side effects.

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Collecting the Best - Is It for the Best? | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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