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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Harvard will have to be content with its mediocre performance against Brown until after Christmas...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Action Jackson | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

Although Noguera will not hold Willie's chair, he will cover the same content area, which Murphy called "schools and communities...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Noguera | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

Matthew and Luke give detailed descriptions of the tempting offers that Satan made to Jesus in the desert. Since Mark mentions 40 days in the desert but gives no specifics, I've imagined that it was then that Jesus began to believe--from the content of his vision at baptism--that God was a gentler kind of father than he proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...deeply--such issues as suicide and child molestation. There's even a new song titled Trash. In the past, the group's music has been tinged with hip-hop. Issues is virtually all yowling, sludgy rock. In fact, it's almost undifferentiated white noise, as if the band were content to echo the roar of its crowd. This CD has a few intriguing moments of raw energy. Still, I'm waiting for the flush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Issues | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...used ad naseum by West. One can read the entire book and still be confused as to the exact definition of "Chekovian Christian." But Horowitz's criticism barely skims the surface of either West or his book, focusing entirely on style and presentation and utterly ignoring content and meaning. Ultimately, Horowitz seems to be using West as a vehicle to make his attack on the university system in general, when he writes "For his intellectual charade reflects the political sickness of the modern academy, which has thrown over its traditional calling to the 'disinterested pursuit of knowledge' and assumed...

Author: By Erik Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Years of Debate Bound in One Volume | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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