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Instead, Harvard should offer classes that teach simple skills and pleasures that will be useful to men and women whose lives are likely to be both sedentary and stressful. Classes should have a pleasant mix of walking, simple 5-minute calisthenics, breathing exercises and the like--stuff which will actually be useful in later life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Different Curriculum | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...Instead, Harvard should offer classes that teach simple skills and pleasures that will be useful to men and women whose lives are likely to be both sedentary and stressful. Classes should have a pleasant mix of walking, simple 5-minute calisthenics, breathing exercises and the like--stuff which will actually be useful in later life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...singular vision. Although the album features artists ranging from R. and B./hip-hop diva Mya to country singer Trisha Yearwood, virtually all the songs were written by one performer, R. Kelly. Life lacks the inventive brilliance of, say, Prince's 1989 Batman sound track, but it is a consistently pleasant album. And it's worth listening to if only for the title song, on which new-school R. and B. vocalists K-Ci and Jo-Jo make Kelly's music come alive with old-school panache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Life | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...point of March Madness. It's no fun if everything goes according to plan; we all love rooting for the underdog and watching him succeed. This attitude mostly has to do with basketball, but it also has to do with the time of the year--it's spring, and pleasant surprises are the order...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Owning the Glass | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...neighborhood around the public library in Bryant Park across town as the domain of Lucinda Wyman, the heroine of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, who prowled the city a century ago, making friends of cab drivers, patrolmen, fruit vendors, junk dealers and confectioners--defying her class-conscious relatives. A pleasant place to lunch nearby: the Algonquin, onetime hangout of wits and wags Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman and Robert Benchley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: A Bookworm's Tour Of the Big Apple | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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