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...speech before the packed audience, Gephardt listed three main obstacles to democracy that could lead to a "decline in civility." He cited the troubled American public education system, the poor relationship between employers and employees and the lack of civic participation...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gephardt Discusses Solutions To `Crisis' in U.S. Democracy | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...main problem with ESPP is that there are a smattering of courses within different disciplines but there isn't enough to pull it together into a coherent program," Kaiser says. "Courses like Dan and Glenn's pull it together to make it a coherent discipline...

Author: By Matthew G.H. Chun and James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Growing Pains in ESPP | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

DePoe, who cites Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Tori Amos and Miles Davis as his main musical influences, agrees that the two have an eclectic style. He says that sometimes he even steps in to sing when Maher takes a bathroom break...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, | Title: Subterranean Music Duo Plays for Profit, Pleasure | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

...effort to improve the education of those 175,000 students, the board's main goals included increasing affordability and access to public higher education in Massachusetts, raising admissions standards, improving retention and graduation rates, promoting institutional efficiency and maximizing private fundraising, according to a press release issued April 27 by the Board of Higher Education...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: State Higher Ed Official Retires | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

...view at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi" comprises some 70 works of art--paintings, sculpture, textiles, manuscripts and metalwork--drawn in part from the 13th century tesoro, or museum, of the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, Italy. Its main purpose is to draw attention to the disaster that struck the great pilgrimage center in September 1997, when an earthquake shook loose the vaults of its upper church, weakening the whole structure and bringing down some 2,000 sq. ft. of frescoes by Cimabue and Giotto in a ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Assisi's Treasury | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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