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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But clear across the Pacific Ocean, the significance of the Harvard name can be taken out of proportion. "If you went to Harvard, or graduated from there, you are automatically elevated to some sort of 'elite' realm," says Misasha C. Suzuki '99, a Japanese citizen who works for JP Morgan...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting Harvard on the Map | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Ford's surprise declaration was part of a strategy by Michigan's president, Lee Bollinger, to recapture the moral high ground that affirmative-action supporters have lost to the likes of California's Ward Connerly. Bollinger insists that for a university, racial diversity is "as vital as teaching Shakespeare or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Affirmative Action's Alamo | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Poverty-row chillers were a staple in the 1950s, with a string of lower-than-lowbrow horror movies by such directors as Roger Corman (Not of This Earth) and William Castle (The Tingler), films that were enjoyable in direct proportion to our sense that they were made without adult supervision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Predecessors: They Came from Beyond | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

28% Proportion of Americans with cell phones

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

59% Proportion of Americans who say they would rather visit a dentist than sit next to anyone using a cell phone

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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