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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women and under-represented minorities will (until the numbers have risen) always be asked to do rather more," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message. "Role models always are in that position...

Author: By Jason M. Goins and Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Over-'Committeed' & Under Pressure: Harvard's Faculty Churns out Policy One Meeting at a Time | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

Though passing percentages for the July, October and January tests have risen, educators and prospective teachers still worried that the MECT is not adequately testing their skills--and that it has become a political tool...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omaalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Questions of Validity Surround Teacher Tests | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...explain. Splits naturally occur in the best stocks--the ones that go up. The split signals management confidence, but the heavy lifting is done by management execution that delivers earnings. Do that, and the stock will go up whether it splits or not. Just ask Buffett--whose shares have risen, on average, 28% a year since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dumb Money | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...number of applications for the editor positions of Let's Go Travel Guides has risen dramatically, with 102 applicants for 29 openings, up from 45 last year...

Author: By Steven E. Stryer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Let's Go Applications Rise | 2/16/1999 | See Source »

...Knowles, chair of the Committee on the Core Program, agrees the monster is innocuous. "There will always be some lecturers whose presentations are so exciting, and who talk about subjects of interest to such a wide range of students, that they fill Sanders," he says. "Once the audience has risen above about 100 or so, I don't think that the 'student's ability to learn' is affected. It can become, instead, a vivid, shared experience. There is surely nothing intrinsically wrong with very popular lecturers." Knowles's vision of a "vivid, shared, experience" reflects administrative insulation from the bustling...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

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