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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to characterize first-year living across the board, though. The effort to preserve an authentic Kennedys-and-Roosevelts-slept-here feel in the dorms has created wide discrepancies in room size and quality. Three months from now you could be showing your quarters to a photographer from House Beautiful. Or you could be consulting a shrink about your newly-acquired claustrophobia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorms Come in Variety of Shapes, Sizes | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Crimson Key: 1. Cheery cult of studentscloaked in crimson who organize orientation weekand give campus tours to wide-eyed visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...result of this hands-off style, Rudenstine sometimes comes across as being too insular with respect to undergraduates. For example, three years ago as the College buzzed about the first-ever, campus-wide elections of the Undergraduate Council's president and vice president, Rudenstine was oblivious to the sea of colorful campaign posters visible from his office window--he had no idea the elections were happening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Variety of Administrators Shape Life at Harvard | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...signs were hard to miss. According to FBI papers, Frankel, 44, had turned his $3 million home in tony Greenwich into a warren of offices with electronic locks and nearly 100 computers, plus wide-screen televisions tuned to financial news channels. And like any true "Seven Habits" disciple, Frankel made lists of things to do, one of which was "launder money." Also seized were personalized astrological charts answering such questions as: "Will I go to prison?" "Should I leave?" and "Will I be safe?" So far, so good. In addition to the insurance money, Frankel may also have pocketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Be a Broker and Make Out Like a Bandit | 6/22/1999 | See Source »

...unless it's Dick, the comedy about two '70s teenagers who were supposedly Watergate's Deep Throat--and that picture boasts giggling girls, a fart joke and a Chief Executive who serendipitously shares his nickname with the male organ. As for mega-serioso drama, the main one is Eyes Wide Shut, and that has Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman making weird whoopee, so it shouldn't be a chore to sit through. Most of the other pictures are minds wide shut. Their only aim is to make you laugh yourself sick. As Eddie Murphy, playing a star actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Going Goofy at the Movies | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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