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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smells like there would have been a great S'more," said Aron R. Croft '03, who arrived after the firefighters left and had not heard that an actual S'more had caused the alarm...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, | Title: Fire Erupts Over Burnt Smores | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

Many college officials nationwide criticized the report because it focused on the college's neighborhood rather than the actual campus--where violent crimes are rare. A school in a violent neighborhood could be ranked at high risk for crime, even if the actual campus was safe...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Safer Than Yale, New Study Shows | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

Port said the consulting firm would not release proprietary company information, but he said he believed the scale was accurate. CAP Index has been 70 percent to 90 percent accurate in predicting levels of actual crime, he said...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Safer Than Yale, New Study Shows | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

...confused Slovenia and Slovakia and called the Greeks Grecians, he should have known it was only a matter of time before someone administered a midterm exam. And at other moments during the week, when he veered off text, the words just sort of floated out there, untied to any actual ideas. The implicit charge is less that he's stupid than that he's incurious, proudly anti-intellectual. Yet he is applying for a new and very demanding job--and it was hard for Bush to attack this as a media ambush when his education philosophy hinges on testing what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Primary Questions | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...have crossed that line innumerable times. Sirinsky says, "The interweaving of fact and fiction has no place in a biography." That's fine if you imagine that biographies are by and large truthful. They are not. As anyone who has ever attempted to write a "true" account of an actual event knows, the very act of putting pen to paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place in a biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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