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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them down to the laundry room; raptors who know how little undergraduates suspect their fellow students, their friends. Above all, the game alerts its players to betrayal by someone known to them. Detecting...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...alone within, and when trouble erupts--the automatic feeder capsizes or a gunfight develops outside Holyoke Center--behavior becomes chaotic. Hens explode from hen house, students run in circles or gawk at shooters (although one dropped into the gutter, remembering a VES 107 digression on curbstone height versus body shape). Raptors find too many easy marks, too many undergraduates who never sense who follow them, who stalk them down to the laundry room; raptors who know how little undergraduates suspect their fellow students, their friends. Above all, the game alerts its players to betrayal by someone known to them. Detecting...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: Why Not Assassin? | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...expect that during the coming year or two, the dean of the Institute will, with help from faculty members and others, shape an academic plan for the new Institute," Knowles said...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Despite Merger, Devil's In Details | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...Droppingthe baton definitely frustrated Yale from the verybeginning. We knew we went in as underdogs, knewthat we would have to execute to best of ourabilities to beat these guys, and I think that inbeating Yale, we came together very well as ateam. We appear to be in very good shape for thechampionship meet...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Track Teams Torch Yale in Dual Meet | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick Adams through the protagonist known to the American high-schooler only as the Old Man, but also the shape of his sentences and the white spaces he substitutes for adjectives and adverbs...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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