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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston, WILD tries to fill the role of community station, but it is too small and too poor to do it. Jam'n has the resources, but, if anything, is anti-community. Its main selling point is its "Jam-Scams," essentially a grown-up version of a middle school prank, in which Baltazar torments his victims by telling them (falsely) that their cars will be impounded or that their houses will be foreclosed upon. The scammed person invariably gets angrier and angrier, leading to bleeped-out expletives, giggles from the 'Zar, and finally a promise from the scammed...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Looking for Community on the FM Dial | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...says students' main concern appeared to be the "inconvenience of transferring funds into their Crimson Cash accounts...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRIMSON CASH | 1/22/1999 | See Source »

About 20 undergraduates stripped down to boxers and bras in the main-reading room of the library, while other students studied around them...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Studying Studs Strip In Dudley Tradition | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

According to both onlookers and participants, the event gently poked fun at reading period. Many students watched and giggled from the balcony of the fourth floor, while others stayed in the main reading room...

Author: By Rachel K. Sobel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Studying Studs Strip In Dudley Tradition | 1/20/1999 | See Source »

...before. In 1933 he published Paris at Night, a book that instantly secured his reputation and remains one of the milestone volumes of 20th century photography. A picture like L'Avenue de l'observatoire in Autumn is about nothing so much as just dark and light. Its unsentimental main "subject" is a car-headlight beam. A bit as Weegee did in New York City, Brassai hit below the beltways of Paris. What he liked best was what he found in the black sockets of the city, under the bridges and in the streets where hookers dangled their stuff and planted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Brassai: The Night Watchman | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

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