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For many of the students graduating today, it is most fitting that the Commencement ceremonies take place inside Harvard Yard. Returning to the Yard represents coming full-circle for most members of the Class of 1996. Like generations of Harvard students before them, they began their collage careers inside its...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: Outside These Ivied Walls | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

But we were not calling Jeffrey Vanke a foul name. We were fitting an analytical classification to his amoral discourse about our country's sad history of violating black folks' humanity under Southern slavocracy and modern racism. This is no different than the classification that Native Americans put around the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vanke Not Ready for Dialogue | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

Eve's Plum concerts are unique rock experiences, filled with sugarcoated melodies and endless energy. Guitarist Michael Kotch spits out pop hooks while bassist Theo Mack complements him with skillfully melodic bass lines. Yet the most important person on stage must be lead singer Colleen Fitzpatrick, who shines throughout the...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Eve's Plum Is a Sticky-Sweet Treat | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

When rap came around, however, younger performers found its passionate, insistent rhythms a more fitting vehicle for the messages they wanted to deliver and for presenting the truth of their lives. Groups like Public Enemy carried the flag of black protest, and later, gangsta rappers like Snoop Doggy Dogg chronicled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE SAVIOURS OF SOUL? | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

What begins as an accepted practice sanctioned by law can easily turn into an obligation, as society comes to expect what it at first merely tolerated. The logical next step: the old and seriously ill will feel pressured to request euthanasia rather than burden their families with ever rising medical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 6, 1996 | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

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