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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While students are not unanimous in their praise for Epps, largely because he is perceived to have an "establishmentarian point of view" (Rev. Gomes' term), there is no question that he is a huge presence on this campus, a "symbol of Harvard," as this page called him yesterday...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: After Archie: Keep the Deanship | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

What is fascinating about Ask Jeeves is that it allows you to perform sophisticated searches by merely asking a question in plain English. Tracking down Seattle hotels is as easy as typing "Which hotels are in Seattle?" and hitting the GO button...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jeeves: Your Cyberspace Butler | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

...appearance: tall with reddish hair and gray eyes. But Thomas would become a leader in the black community, founding an African Methodist church. Madison put down roots near a mulatto settlement and also stayed in the black community. "Though we consider it a gift of God, our one enduring question is why Madison chose to stay black when it might have been easier to live as white," asks his descendant, Shay Banks-Young, 54, who lives in Columbus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Reunion | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...sired by one of Jefferson's wayward nephews. Now that the DNA tests have eliminated that possibility, they are suggesting there were other male Jeffersons who could have fathered Hemings' children. Jefferson biographer Joseph Ellis discounts this, saying circumstances bolster Madison's link to Jefferson and even call into question the nullification of the Thomas lineage. At any rate, the clan may have no choice but to meet the rest of the family: the association holds a barbecue every spring, and several of the Hemings kin say they just might drop by next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Reunion | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...many people have to go see them? That's the question that has movie solons tugging at their gray beards and wondering exactly how many teenage boys--and the women who love them--can pack a movie house on an autumn weekend. The answer: $39.4 million worth. That's how much money Sandler's wan The Waterboy earned in its first weekend--a record for any non-summer three-day opening, and proof indeed that, while Oprah Winfrey may not be a film star, Adam Sandler surely is. This veteran of Saturday Night Live (remember Opera Man? Cajun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sandler Happens | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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