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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given the current factions on the council, Nelson has helped unite members in the spirit of cooperation. More than 30 councillors, including most members of the executive board, have endorsed his candidacy; this demonstrates that Nelson has earned his colleagues' trust and respect. Further, it implies that Nelson can make the council a cohesive organization that responds to the concerns of all students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Nelson and Sena as President-V.P. Team | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...life--an idea he often incorporated in his art by painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the veins of its waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEONARDO REDUX | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...like the pure democracy," said Daniel J. Kolodner '97, former Charles Eliot co-chair. "I don't think it should change." The Charles Eliot co-chair is a position designed to foster house spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students in Eliot May Restrict Voting | 12/4/1996 | See Source »

...still do not think I will be going out to western Massachusetts to chop down my own tree--unless, of course, I run out of other inspirational decorations to hang--but I think that a little holiday spirit can go a long way during the endless final weeks before vacation. The end of December doesn't bring the joy of closure that is felt at other schools with the end of exams. And the anticipation usually associated with the coming of the first snow is not an issue, since the first snow has long since come and gone almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Little Holiday Spirit Goes a Long Way | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

Heaney, who said he sympathized with the plight of Armenian writers, read first from his latest collection, The Spirit Level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heaney Reads Poetry at Fundraiser | 12/3/1996 | See Source »

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