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...Crimson’s Fowle quest began in earnest back in November at the Men’s and Women’s Singlehanded Nationals—the first two ICSA championships. Sophomore Clay Bischoff claimed fifth place in the men’s regatta, while junior Margaret Gill—for the second time in three years—took home highest honors on the women’s side...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Sailing Earns Sports Highest Honor | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...explained that humans have an innate curiosity that helps explain their yearning for education, and proffered that the “quest for significant knowledge is completely absorbing and continuously demanding,” as he urged graduates to continue their education outside Harvard’s gates...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Confers 6,194 Degrees | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...word. It is a state of mind for Japanese teens, a modifier that means cool, bitchin', groovy, killer and I-love-it all rolled into one, then squared. For a clothing label trying to crack Asia's burgeoning teen fashion industry, business these days boils down to the quest for kawaii. Asian teenagers tend to wear today what Japanese teens wore a few minutes ago. And unlike the fashion industrial complex in the West, in which top designers and magazine editors dictate what's hot, Japan's teen fashion industry revolves entirely around what Tokyo girls say is kawaii. Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwest For Kawaii | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Kofi Annan is speaking politely, and optimistically, about his global quest to fight AIDS. But in the end, he may be forced to shame the wealthy countries into doing more to fight a disease that has so far killed some 20 million people and has already selected its next 30 million victims. As the first-ever United Nations General Assembly session dedicated to a health issue got underway on Monday, the U.N. Secretary General told the gathering that "AIDS can no longer do its work in the dark, the world has started to wake up." Indeed, world leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Stakes and Hard Choices at the U.N. AIDS Conference | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...deductible at the state level, and you can sock away as much as $250,000 per child. The plans are so popular that fund company American Century, one of the first to offer a tailored college-savings vehicle, scrapped its once popular program last year in favor of Learning Quest, a national 529 plan run through Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your College Cash | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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