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Some students prefer to sleep at unusual times rather than in unusual places...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: Undergraduates Find Creative Methods for Balancing School Work and Sleep | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...context of a little thought experiment. Imagine that it's Sunday, April 13. Tiger has just won the Masters, and, curious observer that you are, you go around asking different people what they would like the headline to be in the newspapers the next day. Some would no doubt prefer "First African-American Wins the Masters." Others, on account of his mother's Thai origins, would like "First Man of Asian Descent Wins the Masters." Some in the younger set would probably want "Youngest Man Ever Wins Masters." But for some reason, I think Tiger would not pick...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Whose Tiger? | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...much prefer to have 24 leading New Bedford business people meeting with me regularly instead of trying to figure out how to get a casino," Harshbarger says...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harshbarger Prepares for Gubernatorial Run | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...much prefer to have 24 leading New Bedford business people meeting with me regularly instead of trying to figure out how to get a casino," Harshbarger says...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: Young Graduates Plant Their Roots in Cambridge | 4/16/1997 | See Source »

...prefer diversity, but not for it's own sake," he says, "No particular group has a corner on the class.... We go where the talent goes," he says...

Author: By Tobie E. Whitman, | Title: Checked Off | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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