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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every possible social permutation has its own piece of the calendar. We celebrate Secretary's Day, Black History Month, the Decade of the Brain, and the American Century. That organized and yet-to-be-organized labor deserves the same seems to be plain. And so we burn burgers in the summer heat of Labor...

Author: By Gabriel B. Eber, | Title: Bring Back the May Pole | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...lack of female professors at Harvard offered fewer choices, or that standards for sexiness differ by gender." We at Dartboard would like to suggest some alternative explanations, less rooted in deep sociological phenomenon. First, perhaps Martin Feldstein is just really darn sexy. Or, maybe most female professors are just plain ugly...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: INDY-TURNED-GALLUP POLL | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...been studying for trivialities like midterms, writing papers, or just plain not paying attention, here's a guide which should get you through the first round of the draft. I added some trades which I thought could happen just to spice things...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Picking Up the Pace: The 1997 NFL Draft | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...This hurts plain and simple," Lyng said. "We got some tough guys to play. Yale's really picked it up in the second half of the season. And Dartmouth, that's the kind of rivalry that no matter who's ranked what it always comes down to a one or two goal game...

Author: By Joseph K. Goodwin, | Title: Men's Lacrosse Pummeled by No. 11 Massachusetts, 12-6 | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...interest, I think, was an innocent one--I was just plain curious about it. I had no agenda, and no concern about what my work might lead to, other than to a better understanding of what makes us human. But when my research hit the headlines, everyone assumed I did have an agenda, although they couldn't agree on what it was. To some, I was out to pathologize, perhaps to eliminate homosexuality. "Another example of medical homophobia!" declared one gay academic on prime time television. To others, I was out to justify homosexuality--to prove that we are "born...

Author: By Simon Levay, | Title: Unavoidably Queer? | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

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