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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have the rest of our lives to go to LL Cool J concerts. But when else do students have the opportunity to throw themselves onto a giant wall of Velcro, or smack each other over the head with giant foam boxing gloves? The corraling of legal-aged students into a special cage for beer drinkers may not have been the most aesthetically pleasing solution to the problem of providing alcohol, but turning the event into a "BYOB affair," as the staff suggest, is a recipe for disaster. And the MAC Quad was the perfect location for the festivities. Had they...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Foam Boxing Gloves Rule | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals." But these are more than gorgeous works of art. The elaborate figures depicted by and on these objects, and the stylistic themes they reflect, give historians their first direct window onto Thracian society, commerce, religion and, in at least one bawdy applique depicting copulating newlyweds, sexuality. Poets and warriors, indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Thrace's Gold | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...impresario SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS' sap must be rising. He decided to make love en plein air (but not, interestingly, with the mother of his newborn son). Alas, Combs, who thought he was enjoying the privacy of Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-Lago Club, had strayed onto the sand of the veddy conservative Bath & Tennis Club. A B&T member took offense at the frolicking and sent a club official to stop it; according to the Palm Beach Daily News, an unabashed Puffy blasted the official for "ruining his concentration." A spokeswoman said the incident was the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...explain that the image is created by laser beams reflected onto a rapidly rotating screen, much as a television image is created by an electron beam scanning across a stationary phosphor screen...

Author: By Nicholas A. Nash, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Get Sneak Preview of 3-D TV | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

Kelly's monument still stands just outside the iron fence of Harvard Yard where Straus Hall ends. His face keeps watch on all those who pass--the students, tourists, shopkeepers, punks, and derelicts who rush to descend into the tunnels he helped to build, hopping onto the Red Line or just-muttering to themselves while wandering aimlessly, looking for a place to urinate. With the recent erection of the "Magnetic Poetry Wall," some may believe that the spirit of Harvard Square has reached its nadir, particularly if one is reading the latest attempt at actual verse or simply another adolescent...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: The Man Who Would Be "Muggsie" | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

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