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...Scarlet Knights' stradegy would prove futile as the Crimson swept the races, winning by at least three seconds in each instance...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Crews Both Cruise; Radcliffe Second | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...society ordered Monica Lewinsky to wear a scarlet letter A, she would giggle, convinced that it stood for Awesome! DEBORAH BUCKNER Overland Park, Kans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Pneumonia, syphilis, gonorrhea, diphtheria, scarlet fever and many wound and childbirth infections that once killed indiscriminately suddenly became treatable. As deaths caused by bacterial infections plummeted, a grateful world needed a hero. Fleming alone became such an object of public adulation, probably for two reasons. First, Florey shunned the press, while Fleming seemed to revel in the publicity. Second, and perhaps more important, it was easier for the admiring public to comprehend the deductive insight of a single individual than the technical feats of a team of scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...face of a city that so unabashedly proclaims its own preeminence? The fact is, even though it's been on good behavior for the past couple of years, New York still breeds a culture of dizzying excess perfectly suited to those who'd like to lose the scarlet H for a few days in a blur of neon lights, rattling subways and the raunchiest late-night public access TV around...

Author: By Dorothy Parker, | Title: nyc | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Test of Their Lives | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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