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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just look at the vast number of students studying in Lamont or Cabot on weekend nights. Observe how many people stare open-mouthed when a couple embraces in the Yard. For real proof, flip through any college guide; ever wonder why Harvard gets five stars for academics but only three telephones for social life...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Romance at Harvard? Yeah, Right. | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...uncle's sleeve. "He would try to tell me what play I should call." Sister Mary Roberts, the principal at St. Al's, broadcast Notre Dame's victory march over the loudspeaker each afternoon as school adjourned, perhaps because she belonged to the Order of Notre Dame. No wonder Holtz subsequently told his family that he would some day coach the Fighting Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fella Expects To Win: Notre Dame coach LOU HOLTZ | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

...toss whole shelves of papers and books, I can't help but wonder if anyone will miss them. Someday, a researcher may want to look at the working papers of a study on the incidence of poverty in children under five in Peninsular Malaysia. Maybe someone will need the book on the yarn-ball cottage industry in the rural Botswanan economy. Aren't these things important enough to keep around...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Save the Little Libraries | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...wondered--and we're still wondering--what sort of experience it must be for East Berliners to come to the capitalist West for the first time. What are they feeling over there? The most interesting strain of the media's commentary on their experiences has been the wonder East Berliners have felt upon trying out bourgeois life for the first time--upon realizing, for instance, that there could be a hundred different kinds of sausage, all in the same store, each truly distinct from the rest...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Can't Help Being Bourgeois | 11/21/1989 | See Source »

Sounds pretty innocent, though one might wonder why, if it's legal, Drexel and others haven't offered this appealing tax-loss service more widely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: Too Much Firepower to Fit the Crime? | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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