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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...untutored perceptions in our generally materialistic society, a lawyerly, understandable, but morally untenable desire to hold on to money that was originally given to benefit a different Radcliffe. The Radcliffe endowment has now reached $200 million-peanuts next to Harvard's $10 billion but pretty healthy for a non-college. Radcliffe has a bigger endowment than two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...

Author: By Claire KAPLAN Lipsman, | Title: Auctioning Off Radcliffe | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, featuring 220 drawings and collages, seeks to trace Kelly's formative years in France as a young artist searching not for self but for non-self. As Yve-Alain Bois, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. Professor of Modern Art, points out "the grail he (Kelly) sought was his own effacement." During the period of 1948-1955, Kelly sought to find a way not to compose, to relinquish personal agency over his work. The exhibit, arranged chronologically, depicts three methods: the direct copy or transfer system, automatic drawings, and grid work established by chance...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kelly Draws, a Wild Hand | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...Indeed, Harvard is the second richest non-profit institution in the world. Therefore, not only can it easily afford paying Antonio and its other laborers at least $10 an hour, but the institution (as well as its past and present students) can afford campaigning and advocating for a whole lot more...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, | Title: The Active Voice: Living with a Harvard Wage | 3/12/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson had no problem throughout the match, as it jumped ahead early, making it possible for some non-starters to get in some playing time of their...

Author: By Maisa A. Badawy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Water Polo Spanks MIT, 21-8 | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...social legislation on Thursday. The subject, education, allows both parties to show they care about everyone's favorite constituency: children. The House passed and the Senate was expected to pass a bipartisan "ed-flex bill" that would allow states greater flexibility in spending federal education funds. The bill is non-controversial, says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson "because it expands nationwide a pilot program that now exists in 12 states." It is popular, he adds, because it gives both parties the political cover they need to show they are getting down to business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Bill Provides Flexibility, But Maybe Not Quality | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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