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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...encourages schools worried about WILL's Title IX implications to form similar, though separate, programs for men--a MILL program, so to speak...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Complying With Title IX: How Harvard Interprets the Law | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...sense, then, yuppie angst is the dysfunction that dares not speak its name. Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is so ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...sense, then, yuppie angst is the dysfunction that dares not speak its name. Edward Norton's character in Fight Club is so ashamed of the fact that he is bored with the Gap(tm)-bland banality of his successful life he is forced to pretend that his affliction is something completely different. Hence his addiction to group therapy sessions, where he can pretend that his unhappiness springs from testicular cancer or OCD rather than from the cookie-cutter pointlessness of his life. Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) in American Beauty faces the same dilemma: she's wealthy, she has a nice...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...would not speak on behalf if Harvard because all I can say to people is that they should not contribute to this University until it has fair and open hiring," she says...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Report: Astronomy Profs Treated Poorly | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...Where the kids don't have books, they're basically children of color, children who don't speak English as their first language," Scott said...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Committee Candidates Stress Importance of Technology | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

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