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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arranged their schedules with no classes on Tuesday and Thursday (and for any Big Lebowski fans out there), take a trip to Lanes and Games, a monster bowling alley which also features pool tables and a wild video game room. As you step into this futuristic world with your friends, all guilt about that Chaucer reading will disappear into a desperate need to beat the world at bowling or at least score in the triple digits. 9 a.m. to midnight, 195 Concord Tpke off Rt. 2 (Alewife T-stop). 876-5533. $3 to 4 for games, depending on candlepin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LISTINGS | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

DIED. JEFFREY MOSS, 56, Emmy-winning writer and composer who helped create Sesame Street's lovable fur balls, Coooookkiiieeeee! Monster and Oscar the Grouch; of cancer; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...think, though, that this ridiculous monster is the real political correctness. It doesn't seem to be consistent with the founding intention of the concept--what Director of the Harvard Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter has often called "the collective insistence on human decency." American society has only raised up this monstrosity because it misunderstood how to realize the principle...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Understanding Political Correctness | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...worst product of this monster political correctness is the perception that political correctness is no more than ethnic self-affirmation a la Stuart Smalley. Assuming, for example, that minority literature only appeals to minorities comes perilously close to placing the burden of multiculturalism on the minority. Assuming that whites aren't involved--or aren't interested in becoming involved--in building America's multiracial, multiethnic democracy means going back to seeing racism as "That Black Problem" or Yellow Peril as "That Asian Problem." Strained relations between members of our American community are everyone's problem...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Understanding Political Correctness | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...fourth game, the Crimson jumped out to a 5-0 lead, a rally that included an ace by senior Kristen Priscella and a monster kill by Denniston...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Wins 1 of 3 in Classic | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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