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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Welch joined the Islamic Art and Later Indian Art department at the Fogg after receiving his master's in ancient art from Harvard. He was appointed curator of the department in 1976 and served until his retirement...

Author: By Rachel V. Zabarkes, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sackler Museum Receives 300 Works | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...there is a problem: the key principle of the Pokeocracy is acquisitiveness. The more Pokemon you have, the greater power you possess (the slogan is GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL). And never underestimate a child's ability to master the Pokearcana required to accumulate such power: the ease with which they slip into cunning and thuggery can stun a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. Grownups aren't ready for their little innocents to be so precociously cutthroat. Is Pokemon payback for our get-rich-quick era--with our offspring led away like lemmings by Pied Poke-Pipers of greed? Or is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Rappers have been scaring up huge sales lately, mostly by brandishing their thug-life credentials. Just ask DMX, Dre or Master P. But Smith borrows a page from Puffy's handbook: You can lure more folks to a party than to a rumble. Willennium is a sample-happy pop-rap smorgasbord that draws on the jiggier hits of the Clash, Michael Jackson and, believe it or not, Tito Puente. Smith throws a few elbows at rappers who call him soft--"Yeah, Microsoft," he answers. But Willennium really has one thing on its mind: G-rated fun. And it delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Willennium: Will Smith | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Just when you thought New Orleans couldn't put out another formulaic, nah-nah-neh-nah album. This time the culprit is Lil Wayne, a fiercely tattooed, $15,000-watch-wearing 16-year-old out of the Big Easy's PJs. But this time, Master P and his gold-tanked army can't claim responsibility. Tha Block is Hot is the latest in a torrent of albums from newcomers Cash Money Records, the same crew that dropped Guerrila Warfare, the much-lauded Hot Boyz album, earlier this year. But this album might have come too soon after the diminutive Wayne...

Author: By Franklin Leonard, | Title: Album Review: Lil Wayne | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...flurry crashed the studio's voice mail system...." "'Kids love the fact it's their own language,' a toy company rep said. 'They really enjoy becoming experts at something. It empowers them and builds their confidence....You become part of the fantasy as you try to become a Pokemon master...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's In the [K]now | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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