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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People can't go to college because they can't afford it. It's a class issue now," she says. "A lot of students aren't making decisions based on what they want, they choose their career path based on income, not merit...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: State May Offer Tax Break to Student Borrowers | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Such a volume is, if nothing else, an indication of Stevens' assured legacy in the development of American poetry. A figure of such enduring merit, the argument goes, must merit a reading of all his works: not just the poetry, but also plays, lectures, notes, correspondence. The heretofore definitive Opus Posthumous was first published by Knopf two years after Stevens' death in 1955; the most recent edition contains nearly all of the poems found in the new compendium, including those not incorporated in Stevens' volumes. Collected Poetry and Prose assembles seven volumes of poetry released between 1923 and 1955, Stevens...

Author: By Matthew R. Daniels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Hard-Bound 'Collected' Wallace Stevens Fits Nicely on Shelf | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

Shakespeare's treatment of history can be excused both by his time period and by his artistic merit. The practice (not to mention conception) of history was quite different in Shakespeare's time than our own. Even in "history" writing, very different standards were applied. Pocahontas and Anastasia, however, must answer to our own contemporary standards of historical veracity...

Author: By Adam J. Levitin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rape of Clio: Reconciling Art and History | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...Some [of the possibilities] have a lot of merit, and some are based on a misunderstanding of what would be for the betterment of undergraduates," said Noah R. Freeman '99, an undergraduate member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) who sat in on the Council meeting...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Masters Propose Greater Keycard Access in Houses | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

Lord promises that God No Shadow, the upcoming album released through The WORK Group, surpasses the artistic merit of her two EPs on Seattle's Kill Rock Stars label; the pieces are more adult than the "high school bedroom songs' she's sung for so many years. Got No Shadow also features full band backup on most songs, which could either be a detriment or a complement to her usually acoustic style...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Underground Songstress | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

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