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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early one morning for dim sum at the local hotel. It was still cool when we emerged from a heavy breakfast of pork in testines, so we decided to bike over to the amusement park. Although it was a weekday, the park, which stood next to a courthouse, was very crowded. Li Mei explained it was because everyone had come to hear the criminal sentences. "Peasant, age 21," was all I understood of the loudspeaker announcement. We walked past the crowds and bought tickets for the park. I taught my cousins how to drive bumper cars. We went or five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Gang of Twelve | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

Harvard currently has 14 outstanding bonds issues with their total sum valued at $959.6 billion, according to Harvard's fiscal 1991-1992 report, the most recent available...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: A Billion Here, A Billion There: Harvard And Its (AAA Rated) Bonds | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...Chicago solution, a lump-sum payment to encourage early retirement, is not the best solution of Harvard and may be illegal, says McCarthy...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: THE UNCAPPING OF RETIREMENT | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...undisclosed sum, Dylan permitted the Big Six firm to use folkie Richie Havens' rendition of his protest anthem. The company cannot use Dylan's name, even when discussing the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just in Case You Hadn't Heard -- the '60s Are Over | 1/31/1994 | See Source »

Reagon first envisioned a series on black spiritual music 15 years ago. It took five years to produce, at a cost of $1 million, quite a sum for radio (most of the funding came from the National Endowment for the Humanities). The production crew unearthed rare archival material and conducted more than 250 hours of interviews. Some of the older gospel singers interviewed died before the series was completed, and that brought home to Reagon the importance of her efforts: "I realized I was creating a record of a part of society that would probably be passed over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drenched in the Spirit | 1/17/1994 | See Source »

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