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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the end, Hampshire, Berkeley and the rest are right; the intellectual environment is improved when one must contemplate why, in the auto-pilot of self-absorption that is washing and drying hands, we stop in our tracks at the sight of a woman exiting one stall and a man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartboard | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

And when the University asked him to donate, he did. "I'm committed to a substantial contribution in the current campaign," Stanton says. His donation is unrestricted, meaning the University can use it to fund construction, professorships, renovation of the libraries or any other cause they wish.

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Calls, He Gives | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Ever wonder why we say that a baseball player "flied out to center" instead of "flew out to center"? Pinker explained that the meaning of the word 'fly' has changed as the word changed from a verb to the noun 'fly ball' and then back to a verb. Over that...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pinker Explains Language | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

Gregory Gibson and I met 36 years ago as freshmen at Swarthmore College. Greg was 18--the same age his elder son Galen had reached in 1992 when he was slaughtered in an act of senseless violence. Galen was in his second year at Simon's Rock College in Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elegy for a Gone Boy | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Just as Congress was gearing up to hold hearings on the issue, IBM announced it would change the eligibility rules to double the number of workers--to 65,000--who would be able to keep their old pensions. Still, IBM senior vice president J. Thomas Bouchard, testifying before the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pension Revolt | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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