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This risk is acknowledged by Bunting Director Rita Nakashima Brock, who says it could stall the high-level negotiations with Harvard...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bunting Fellows Could Include Men Next Fall | 2/23/1999 | See Source »

...fails. "It is inappropriate and simplistic to treat cohabitation as the major factor affecting divorce," says Larry Bumpass, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. "The trend in divorce stretches back over the last hundred years, so clearly it wasn't caused by cohabitation." Indeed, cohabitation may have helped stall the rising divorce rate by weeding out unstable relationships. So, Grandma, don't gloat just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bad Start? | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...craw sticks the story of the sinking of the four-masted schooner Fantome, which went down in the Caribbean after a losing battle of wits with Hurricane Mitch. Captain and crew were certain they had outsmarted the hurricane by hanging back, but Mitch decided to stall, and down went the Fantome in 180-m.p.h. winds and 50-ft. waves--31 people lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of the Year | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...CREAM CONE Americans did not start eating ice cream out of cones until 1904-at the world's fair in St. Louis, Mo. The Smithsonian recognizes Abe Doumar, a Lebanese immigrant, as the inventor. He rolled a waffle from one stall and put ice cream in it from another and sold the combination. He then created a machine for producing the cone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard-donated stall in Holyoke Center Arcade aims to raise money for children worldwide through sales of holiday gifts...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Donates Kiosk | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

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