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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to its volunteers, the organization has two part-time staff members--Lim, 26, the interim housing organizer, and Natalie J.J. Smith, 34, who heads EFZ's ongoing political campaigns...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Motley Crew: Grassroots Group Fights for Tenants | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...having benefited so abundantly from it. But there can be no doubt that this same unwillingness to label anyone as fundamentally unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back to look for errors of procedure in the problems where the answer was right...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: A Fool's Complaint | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

Rent control provided two important protections for tenants, according to Cavellini. It slowed rent increases, limiting landlord profit margins, and provided for a "just-cause" eviction process so tenants could not be evicted without reason...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Motley Crew: Grassroots Group Fights for Tenants | 12/1/1999 | See Source »

...himself and Texas A&M junior Jerry Self of Arlington, Texas, one of those lost that morning. We looked at the squadron on a trip to the State Capitol and at a military parade in College Station. Chris even had his arm around Jerry in a picture or two. Jerry was not assigned to work that night, but he volunteered to build long into the morning...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, A LITTLE PAST LITTLE ROCK | Title: "We Need CPR and First-aid . . ." | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

...cure. But just as we're not satisfied with perennially checking the "don't know" box in explaining an air crash, we're burdened, as a culture, to find an explanation for a phenomenon that has killed 16 million people - and has infected 33 million more - in less than two decades. "The interesting thing is that in Hooper's explanation, as in all the plausible scenarios for how the virus made the jump to humans, the key element is a chance encounter," says Gorman. "In other words, in all of them there's a common element - bad luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is AIDS a Man-Made Plague? | 11/30/1999 | See Source »

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