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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreement, which was negotiated over the course of a year, Brown promised to keep the percentage of women athletes within 3.5 percent of the percentage of women enrolled at the college, said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University Settles Title IX Dispute | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...women's athletics is cut, or, if a men's program is added, that percentage will shrink to 2.25 percent, Nickel said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University Settles Title IX Dispute | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

According to Nickel, one of the strengths of the agreement is that it preserves a university's autonomy to implement Title IX in whatever way it sees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown University Settles Title IX Dispute | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...similar experiences--standard reactions to admitted Harvard undergraduate status seem to include: the impromptu vocabulary quiz, the "Wow, you must be really smart," and, for the comedian, the "Is it hard work there? Ha, ha," and the "Harvard? Never heard of it, ha, ha.' "If I had a nickel for every time somebody said, 'Oh, I've heard of that...'" adds Lidsky...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: On the Town | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

Well, what else did I have in mind for my twilight years? Not that much. A writer turns 55, the old double nickel, and the slender thread of inspiration has unraveled and you clomp around in circles like an old pony at the pony ride and beautiful women come up and tell you how much their mothers liked something you did in 1975. Your prose style turns flabby. Your work has the shelf life of tropical fish. Compared to that, fathering a baby is sheer nobility, a shot at immortality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O Baby, Baby | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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