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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish community [at Harvard] was strong and diverse," he says. "I didn't want like a whole slew of fanatic Orthodox Jews. the diversity really appealed...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Magic Tricks | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

That all changed this season with the addition of head coach Jenny Allard--who is Harvard's first full-time softball coach--and a slew of young talent. Allard demanded a lot from her players, and the results showed...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Softball Makes First-Ever Tournament | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...been told Stoppard has no real subject but his own ingenuity. But with Arcadia he has taken on, dazzlingly, an expansive slew of topics: a young girl's dawning sexuality, the birth of Romanticism, modern academia, post-Newtonian physics. We've heard he fails to understand women or to create good female characters. But in Thomasina Coverly, a 13-year-old mathematical genius fated to die before her 17th birthday, he has forged a female role any young actress would pine for. We've heard that he is all brain and no heart, and yet by Arcadia's final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HOUSE OF GAMES | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

According to these narrow, Eastern minds, L.A. is being overrun by a slew of evils, including earthquakes, fires, riots, mudslides, defense cutbacks, immigrant bashers, Forrest Gump lovers and the aforementioned Mr. Simpson's defense team...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: California Dreaming | 4/5/1995 | See Source »

Some supporters of this atomization of federal oversight forecast a slew of new innovations from the workings of 50 separate governments. But these innovations would doubtlessly be superficial, indigenous to their states of origin. Republicans also tout the agility of smaller state bureaucracies in reacting to societal shifts, in comparison to the purportedly unwieldy federal system...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Recipe For Disaster | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

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