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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...singles, Harvard again manhandled the upper-half of the competition with Blake winning in first position...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Men's Tennis Busy | 4/30/1997 | See Source »

Spinning around quickly, she fired a bounce shot in the upper corner...

Author: By Grant D. Wiens, | Title: Greyhounds Sprint Past W. Lacrosse | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...doesn't happen at all in upper-level classes, and we only have one or two each year in the 1,000 or so students in introductory calculus," he says...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, | Title: CHEATING at Harvard | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Vendler also says that the historical restriction of literature to an educated upper class continues to linger to this day, leading to the perception that poetry is an elitist art form. And Engell suggests that the cultural milieu of the past few decades may have been more heavily "saturated with cinema and politics" than with literature of any kind, leaving even less room for poetry...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, | Title: Poems, Poets and Poetry at Harvard | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...answers, we need only turn to any of the exhibition's 17 striking canvases, where tiny scholars and fishing boats cower under misty, mountains. In Yellow Cliffs, three Benday dot cliff faces drop steeply from the painting's upper left corner. At the bottom, Lichtenstein's fluid, black contour describes an undulating boulder. This black outline, originally taken from comic books, contains a small patch of red parallel lines, which were used to denote shading in the half-tone prints of newspapers and magazines...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: Seeing The Big Picture | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

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