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After this first level, Harvard faces the problem of fleeting junior Faculty--those who have left recently say the historically slim chances of gaining tenure from within Harvard drove them to seize other opportunities, many of which offer almost assured prospects for tenure...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Junior Faculty Quit Harvard for Tenure Track Jobs Elsewhere | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...basketball coach] Kathy [Delaney-Smith]and I liked her...then we were sitting inPinochios and my Dad said, `Don't even think aboutit,'" she said, explaining that the expense,compared to scholarship offers from other schools,had both parents ready to pass up admission evenif Miller got in--a slim chance given that onlytwo other graduates from her high school had evermade it. "But I fell in love...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Miller Shines on Court, Heads for Med School | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...although many students and some House Masters remained quietly hopeful that randomization would be reviewed and perhaps even reversed, the likelihood at this point of any formal changes to the House system is slim, according to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Study Shows Students Increasingly Form Diverse Blocking Groups | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...continue to exist even when it no longer resides on the campus that brought it together. Our common experiences are the substance of what we take away from Harvard, stripped of its institutional trappings. Graduating only means we'll no longer trek to Store 24 for a late night Slim Jim, lament Harvard Dining Services' endless variations on unflavored chicken entrees or attend 500-student lectures (something many of us stopped doing years ago anyway). But it shouldn't mean that the people who have been part of our lives won't stay that way. Our fellow seniors...

Author: By T.j. Kelleher, | Title: Crossing the Rubicon | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that NATO would risk trying to arrest him. "Western countries were reluctant to allow their troops in Bosnia to act as the Hague Tribunal?s police force, and it?s unlikely that anybody will send commandos to arrest Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. Indicted war criminals Radovan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now For the World's Most Wanted? | 6/4/1999 | See Source »

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