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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soon after two youths were arrested, but according to Hantman the writings continued to shock parents, who met among themselves to discuss prejudice in the community. The director also discussed the episode with the elementary school students in her drama group, and they decided to write and perform a play "to make sure we are sensitive to each other...

Author: By Gia Lee, | Title: Cambridge Commemorates Holocaust | 4/13/1988 | See Source »

Though he has not said publicly what sins he committed, sordid details will be forthcoming just a few weeks after he goes back on the air. Penthouse magazine has solicited, for an undisclosed sum, Prostitute Debra Murphree to give her account of the pornographic acts Swaggart paid her to perform for him over a year's time. The preacher's ministry is already losing $1.8 million a month and could be hurt further by those revelations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Worshipers on A Holy Roll | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...intellectual school of musicmaking. Trained at Swarthmore and Juilliard, Schickele started out as a composer of serious music. It was an accident of fate that led Schickele to begin composing humorous works. While studying at Juilliard in 1965, Schickele got some friends together and bought out Town Hall to perform some of their more irreverent compositions. So successful was this concert that it has turned into an annual tradition selling out now for nearly 23 years...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Peter Pipes a Pickled Parody | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

Peter Schickele will perform with the Harvard Wind Ensemble and Harvard Jazz Band on Saturday, April 9, 8 p.m. in Sanders Theater...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Peter Pipes a Pickled Parody | 4/8/1988 | See Source »

Still, the impetus behind second-wave technology is not its potential but what it can deliver now in financial returns and improved productivity. In April 1986, IBM brought on line its first expert system, called DEFT (for Diagnostic Expert-Final Test). Its task: to perform the mundane but critical job of diagnosing problems during the final testing of the giant disk drives that store information for IBM's mainframe computers. Since then the testing system has been adapted as a diagnostic tool for IBM service experts and to perform a variety of different tests on IBM equipment. IBM's initial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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