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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carol J. Thompson, Harvard's associate dean for academic affairs, said she was sur- prised to hear of MIT's findings, but also saidshe was encouraged that the Institute had publiclyacknowledged them...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Finds Bias Against Female/Faculty | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...celebration, the first of its kind, featured History of Science Teaching Assistant Abha Sur speaking on International Women's Day, its history and its meaning...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Women Celebrate Shared History | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...always surprised me how women in the U.S. are unaware of the International Women's Day," Sur said. Twenty thousand working women walked through the streets of Delhi, India in honor of International Women's Day this year, according to Sur, whose family is from Delhi...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Women Celebrate Shared History | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, painted a few weeks before the artist's suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This exceptional portrait had been hanging on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, and it cost Wynn a nonnegotiable $47.5 million of his own money, not the Bellagio's. (So far, Wynn's Mirage Resorts Inc. has picked up $160 million of the tab for the collection, and Wynn himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas--Over The Top: Wynn Win? | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Parisian Culture Police turn up their noses and shut their exhibit spaces to innovative new painters. In response, the artists establish the Salon de Refuses and exhibit such landmark paintings as Edouard Manet's Le dejeuner sur l'herbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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