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Inspired last year by the work of Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck, the coordinated effort among the schools will culminate in a conference on the topic at Wellesley next fall...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bishops to Speak at Brooks House | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

Each group's name reflects its discussion topic. For example, alt.rap is a group devoted to the discussion of rap music. Other group names include rec.drugs.psychedelic, alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots and harvard.announce...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Newsgroups Give Users Fresh Look | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

...should have been a place where the concerns of both the Harvard Square Defense Fund and McDonald's were analyzed more thoroughly and in a more unbiased format. The sidebar is a bit more balanced, but falls short in sampling the variety of student and community opinion on the topic. Calling page five of the newspaper "The McHarvard Crimson" is obviously meant to be amusing, and I took it as such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Did Crimson Go McCrazy? | 9/26/1997 | See Source »

...said that he believed Ptashne would return to Harvard to give a seminar on the topic of his area of research in the near future...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ptashne Wins Lasker Award for Gene Research | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

...since Bishop Fulton J. Sheen began delivering his weekly sermons in front of a chalkboard on the DuMont Network has television been so pious. You could call it prime-time revivalism, except that TV never had much religion to revive. Until recently, religion was considered too sensitive a topic to dramatize--or joke about. Producer Norman Lear (All in the Family) made an unsuccessful venture into that territory in 1991 with Sunday Dinner, a weak sitcom in which characters regularly argued about God. Two years later, Lear addressed the lack of religious programming in a speech at the National Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE GOD SQUAD | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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