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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because demonstrators triggered campus fire alarms, Harvard police sealed off the building. Up to 100 demonstrators gathered in support outside, despite a steady, cold sleet. Inside, the activists used loudspeakers to broadcast their demands until Harvard authorities cut off power to the building; supporters in nearby Matthews Hall rigged an extension-cord power line from a second-floor window...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: A Takeover for African Liberation | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor thick of night could keep Schubert groupies from attending Sunday's performance of Die Schone Mullerin at the Museum of Fine Arts, despite the soggy deluge of the afternoon's Nor'easter. After wading through the flooded Fenway in standard duck boots/GoreTex combo's, soaked devotees crowded into the MFA's Remis Auditorium to hear Christopheren Nomura perform some of the German composer's most effusive and affecting ballads...

Author: By Elisabetta A. Coletti, | Title: Nomura Tries Singing (Schubert) in the Rain at the MFA | 10/31/1996 | See Source »

DIED. MONETA SLEET, 70, Pulitzer prizewinning Ebony magazine photographer noted for his powerful images of America's civil rights struggle; of cancer; in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 14, 1996 | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

Some 53 percent of the city's 3,100 registered Republicans took to the polls Tuesday, braving a steady rain and sleet during polling hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dole Victorious in Cambridge By Wide Margin | 3/8/1996 | See Source »

First, Crimson Cash is no more than a $75 subsidy paid for by each of Harvard's students in order to distort the free market, force students to trek to Loker Commons in the snow and sleet [so as not to lose the $75 allotment which their tuition purchased], and alter their normal consumption choices. Alas, say goodbye to Tommy's. Pinocchio's and Bartley's Burger Cottage. Pretty soon we will all have to eat in an ugly tan basement with no windows. And we wanted more choices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Crimson Cash' Is Hardly a Gift | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

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