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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hands on all the ropes, who has an intimate knowledge of every facet of Harvard student theater, who thoroughly knows every nook and cranny of the Agassiz, and replace him with someone who, for all his teaching qualifications, has to take time to rethink and relearn his experience to suit the demands of Harvard theater, probably represents the most economically inefficient decision ever made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Theater Needs Support--and Symonds | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...black Secret Service agents filed a race-discrimination suit against Denny's, claiming that they waited 45 minutes for breakfast at an Annapolis, Maryland, restaurant while their white colleagues were served in 10 minutes. The company called it a "service issue," but agreed to randomly check restaurants to ensure that they treat blacks fairly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest May 23-29 | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...knight son comes in from out of town and says, 'If you don't do everything you can to save her, I'm going to sue your socks off.' " Dr. John Ely, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine says there has never been a successful suit against a physician who gave treatment in accordance with family wishes and against the patient's wishes. "That's because the patients aren't there," he says. "They are either incompetent or they have already died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rx For Death | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...Kong, are very different types of films -- the first an intimate romance, the second a sprawling panorama -- but both are prime exemplars of the qualities Hollywood once monopolized: glamour and intensity, powerful star performances, the pleasures of narrative. Campion and Chen, imagemakers of voluptuous intelligence, have found stories to suit those images...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surprise! Films Shine at Cannes | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

...help Ike, never more so than on the first civil rights bill, in l957. Georgia's Russell, in his last great stand for the Old South, softened the measure. But a bill of sorts was passed, the first fissure in a century of racism. L.B.J., wearing his silver-silk suit, which seemed to glow in the dim Senate corridors, knew what he was doing. So did Ike. And so did Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency When Giants Ruled | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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