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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class took it upon himself to have an extended conversation with the professor during a lecture. Immediately I mocked him--silently of course...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Beware Section Freaks And Geeks | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...vehicle arrives complete with two TVs, two VCRs, a stocked wet bar (no fruit juice), snacks, interior mood lighting and a chauffeur named Daniel. Upon request, the company also supplies balloons and a magical red carpet. Only available on weekends, the stretch Navigator is already booked for the upcoming prom season. Keep in mind: To bring this phenomenon of the automobile industry up to Boston for the night costs $300 an hour and the meter starts running when the white-gloved chauffeur leaves New York City and stops the moment he returns. To say its worth it, well, that would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...result, members of the Math Club have take en it upon themselves to design suggestedcurriculums for Math 22 and Mathematics 55,"Honors Advanced Calculus and Linear Algebra...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: From Chemistry to Chaucer | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

After all, the recent burgeoning of the consulting sector and simultaneous cross-the-board downsizing of middle management is based upon the relative cheapness of consultant labor. Why pay a long-time company employee with a family to feed and corporate benefits to collect, when you can hire the same job out to Harvard kids at Boston Consulting Group, who will do it for less...

Author: By Maxwell N. Krohn, | Title: Playing Right Into Their Hands | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...National Association for the Advancement of Colored People wishes to go on record as believing that it would be better to close the University than to permit it to become a vehicle for disseminating the poison of race and religious hatred upon which the infamous Klan depends in recruiting its membership. We trust that every effort will be made to discover those responsible for bringing this organization into Harvard and that they will be expelled when their names are known. Nationwide experience with the Klan has demonstrated that where it has not been dealt with sternly and promptly...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: The Ku Klux Klan at Harvard | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

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