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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This kind of copy was one of the reasons whythe Graduate Board decided not to empower theService News to editorialize. Instead, the paperwas administered during the war by a board thatconsisted of David M. Little '18, master of AdamsHouse and secretary of the University, Anna Hoke,the paper's accountant, Donald T. Field '31 andThomas S. Kuhn...

Author: By Michael Ryan, EDITED BY THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The First 100 Years | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

Terje Haakonsen, 23, is the master blaster of half-pipe snowboarding. But is he an Olympian? Snowboarding, the cultural twin of skateboarding, is growing up fast and this year will be part of the Winter Games for the first time. But count Haakonsen out of Nagano. The iconoclastic world champion has likened the International Olympic Committee to the Mafia. And last week, as he announced his refusal to participate, he told the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, "There is a lot about these Games that is not my cup of tea." He added, "The thought of an Olympic gold medal has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nagano 1998: The Master Blasts The Board | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...they come to pin the blame for this disruption on the strange women in the Convent is a tale of Faulknerian complexity and power. Morrison once wrote a Cornell master's thesis on Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, and the Mississippian's incantatory prose rhythms still crop up in her writing. Here is Deacon musing on the past as he drives around in Ruby: "He [Deacon's grandfather] would have been embarrassed by grandsons who worked twelve hours five days a week instead of the eighteen-to-twenty-hour days Haven people once needed just to keep alive, and who could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paradise Found | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

Dehaan said that John Dowling encouraged a sense of House spirit in his tenure as master...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Will Miss Leverett's Dowlings | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

...great job as master, and he's certainly very aware of what's going on in the House," he added...

Author: By Neeraj K. Gupta, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Will Miss Leverett's Dowlings | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

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