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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than help with stiff shoulders. Recently, the medical community has begun looking at Tai Chi more closely...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tai Chi's Graceful Motions Help Students Relax | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...evening's cigar, a strong and long one, a Don Rafael from the Dominican Republic. He makes a comprehensive check of the grounds until 11:30 p.m., at which time he retrieves his Don Rafael, and walks out into the courtyard. He struggles to light the cigar in a stiff wind. Then, at last, victory! His smooth puffing lasts until his shift ends. "It's my drawback," he declares on a Tuesday evening in October in the Mather office. "All the students know where I am, from my cigars. They're good to smoke. It relaxes you. Many people smoke...

Author: By Timothy L. Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Smokin' With Billy: The Passions and (Extended) Family of a Harvard Guard | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Gore was easy to talk to and very approachable. "I always liked him very much," Rosenblatt recalls, describing him as staid and a bit stiff--qualities that Gore is often criticized for today. "It was interesting that those same qualities which one admires without taint or adulteration as a young man are sometimes questioned as an older...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...factor working against the Crimson as it entered the second half was the stiff wind it would face for the final 45 minutes...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Soccer Upset by B.C. 1-0 in NCAA Second Round | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...Students have always talked in class. They now have one more means for doing it, and they are testing the boundaries," Aakhus, who has done research in cellular phone culture, writes in an e-mail message. "I think we can expect stiff warnings about the use of electronic devices prior to and during lectures by professors, whether more lectures will crash as a result of cell phones remains to be seen...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ringing Off the Hook | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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