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...still the academic requirements pile onward. For a lot of undergraduates it's been a tough job to concentrate on medieval dates and wait for the sound of orders in a mailbox...

Author: By Judith E. Dutton, | Title: Extra! Extra! Harvard Service News Replaces The Crimson | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

Other market watchers blame the drops on factors ranging from disappointing corporate announcements to investor fears about President Clinton's health reforms. "The NASD study is a pile of crap," says Morris Mendelson, a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania. "Dammit, these are retail customers at All-Tech! Just because they happen to be more interested in the market than the average investor, that's no reason to keep them out." That view is echoed by Edward Fleischman, a former SEC commissioner, who wonders, "How can the SEC justify approving any rule that takes liquidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bypassing the Brokers | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

Gustimirovic has no home save the small couch he sleeps on and the coffeemaker he has scrounged and placed neatly in what must have been the chalet's laundry room. A mess tin near the bed is filled with red and yellow tulips. Nearby stands a pile of straight branches; these will become cigarette ) holders when the line is quiet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Serbian Lines | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...assumption that humans arrived in the Americas about 11,500 years ago is known as the Clovis hypothesis. The name comes from the 1933 discovery of a fluted stone spearpoint dated to that era in a pile of mammoth bones near Clovis, New Mexico. Over the years, similar spearpoints were unearthed all over North America, all apparently about the same age. Because the weapons, known as "Clovis points," were so widespread, and because essentially no artifacts at all were found in older sediments, archaeologists and anthropologists concluded that the Clovis people were the first and that they came over from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Although the team hasn't been as consistent as it would like for much of this season, it has managed to pile up seven straight victories since early-season losses to powerhouses Princeton and Maryland...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Laxwomen Escape Providence With Victory, 10-7 | 4/22/1993 | See Source »

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