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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stupid for riding your bike on the sidewalk," she responded. We carried on further with remarks relating to each other's respective stupidity as the light changed and I headed toward the River, and she toward the Square...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Don't Be Rude | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

Noah Z. Seton '00, president of the Undergraduate Council, said the consensus marks a considerable advancement, but that the council would continue to work toward 24-hour access...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Masters Consent to Initiate Universal Access | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...take [this consensus] as a success right now, but we'll continue to work toward 24-hour access," Seton said...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Masters Consent to Initiate Universal Access | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...intellectual high school senior probably self-selects away from Harvard and toward schools like Swarthmore. Imagine what you would think of a student who showed up as a pre-frosh and asked when the last time you were up late struggling with Wittgenstein's theories of games or Weber's predictions for the future of civilization--not just writing a response paper after skimming half the book, but really considering the challenges posed by these thinkers. Imagine if they asked if the triumphs and catastrophes, big and small, we face every day, even if we rush by and pretend...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: No Intellectuals Need Apply | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western orientation in Russian politics today, notes TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "Hostility toward the U.S. and its allies is so high right now," he says, "that the more the West protests against actions in Chechnya, the more Russia presses forward its offensive." Moscow may now have McDonald's and Pizza Hut and a choice of colas, but some things don't change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tensions High, U.S. and Russia Replay Cold War | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

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