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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amartya Sen is a wonderful person. He has always been very kind and helpful towards the students and young faculty," said Andrew P. Metrick, associate professor of economics. "[He] has always been modest and self-effacing...

Author: By Suzanne M. Pomey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amartya Sen Wins Nobel Prize For Economics | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

Ninety years ago, Harvard almost single-handedly engendered a great debate about the most appropriate apportionment of a person's loyalties. The most influential contribution came from Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book The Promise of American Life became the intellectual foundation both of Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Croly argued that democratic citizenship was fundamental to American identity. Recognizing that the people are sovereign, but "only insofar as they succeed in reaching and expressing a collective purpose," Croly concluded that by the 20th century, we could only fulfill our democratic potential by becoming...

Author: By Daniel Kemmis, | Title: The Path to True Democracy | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

Petrovic said she felt honored to be the first person to buy a ticket to the game...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ticket Sales for Harvard-Yale Game Off to Sluggish Start | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...depicts a whole group (i.e. all Chinese men) as looking like this person and...it is based on a racist image of Asian Americans that dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s," Lee wrote in the message...

Author: By Joseph P. Chase, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Urban Outfitters Chain Pulls Racist Costumes | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...bombing of an Atlanta gay bar. A Nashville couple that sells ammunition at gun shows has told the Atlanta Journal Constitution that they believe they sold Rudolph the gunpowder used in the Atlanta attack. The idea that the additional charges will succeed where a $1 million reward, a 200-person task force and the intervention of militia leader James "Bo" Gritz failed may seem like wishful thinking, but it's not as if the FBI has much else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fugitive Faces Olympic Bomb Charges | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

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