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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even sophomores find that requirements pile up so that students can easily find themselves switching to a concentration requiring two sophomore tutorials. Though some departments allow one semester of tutorial to be waived under certain conditions, many departments will not be so lenient. Consequently, some students must take two tutorials one semester junior year and suffer the increased workload and complications...

Author: By James P. Orourke, | Title: Time to Concentrate | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

...were a drug dealer or a peculating corpocrat. The Miata is relatively cheap, if one of your relatives is a rich uncle. Its base price is under $14,000, though optional doodads push the price to $15,000 or more. Beyond that, surcharges that dealers are able to pile on because of the car's popularity average $4,000 (up to $8,000 in California, says a Mazda official). But why are we talking about money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Miatific Bliss in Five Gears | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic fancy. < He believably underscores the improvisatory quality of Sweeney's first murders, turning him from a monster into a man who howls piteously over the body of his beloved wife, lost and too late found. As corpses pile up in the apocalyptic finale, this version urges spectators not only to think but also to feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Razor's Edge | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Square Deal) or delivered to the doors of people's residences (like the Cambridge Tab) if they are to be read at all. Busy Harvard students--like most people--rarely spend the effort to pick up and take to their rooms publications that were lumped in a grubby pile, as bundles and bundles of unread Campus Calendars and Boston After Darks attest. All the major free publications on campus, including The Independent, the Perspective, the Salient, the Advocate and the Lampoon, know that door-to-door delivery is required or there is no point in publishing. Believe me, door...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: An Open Letter to the House Masters | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

...high school dance: they form a stag line on the beach. Then, when a female, bearing a suitor on her back, wallows up and begins to burrow in the sand where she will lay about 4,000 eggs, as many as 15 lusty males struggle in the waves to pile on. All the males, their long spiny tails wiggling like primeval Excaliburs, try to milt (scientific politesse for fertilize) her eggs and so continue their brutish lineage for another 200,000 millenniums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Jersey Shoreline | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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