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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teacher expresses concern. People wonder if I get less time on tests because I spend so long writing my name. I assure them that my academics have not suffered as a result of my surname. I do, however, learn that if I want my name to fit in the upper right hand corner of a piece of notebook paper, I should start in the middle of the page, not four-fifths over to the right, where everyone else does. Fifth grade: In an unsuccessful bid for school president, I realize that "Vote for Ganeshananthan" isn't exactly, well, pithy...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Dartmouth does have some fantastic individual players that could challenge the Crimson's upper ranks. Juniors Allison Taff and Rebecca Dirksen were the sole point earners in the match against Yale, winning their respective singles matches and pairing to win a doubles match...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Hopes to Clinch Ivy | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

Dartmouth does have some fantastic individual players that could challenge the Crimson's upper ranks. Juniors Allison Taff and Rebecca Dirksen were the sole point earners in the match against Yale, winning their respective singles matches and pairing to win a doubles match...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Wants Sole Possession of Ivy Title | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...what most tantalized Portlanders about the story, what put it on the front page, was what happened next. Since early in the year, a bunch of Grant kids--upper-middle-class ones mostly, Tom's cohort--had been planning a June trip to Mazatlan, Mexico. Word got out that Tom might go. Authorities talked about sending someone there, but decided against it--they're the local cops, after all, not the FBI. Did they even have jurisdiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Most Likely To Succeed | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Lidice near Prague, the atrocities recounted in Martin's short eight minute tribute point to an event that was, as stated by the program notes, the "sharpest and most damning description ever drawn of the nature of Nazism." The town's crime: supposed involvement in the killing of SS Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich. Their punishment: "all male citizens of the town were shot...The township was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguished." Blacklisted by the Nazis Martin arrived in New York City in March 1941, finding the strength to write about the atrocity...

Author: By Teri Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Go Sci-Fi with the BSO | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

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