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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coalition has four subdivisions, each aimed at tackling a different aspect of the problem...

Author: By Molly J. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coalition Vows to Fight Sexual Assault, Broaden Awareness | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...think it's a problem at all," saysMarianne E. McPherson '01, a Pennypackerfourth-floor prefect. The distribution "doesn'tseem random, but I do think it's working. They'rea great group...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Union Dorm First-Years Find Homogeneity | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Indeed, if Beowulf belongs to all English speakers, Heaney's writing also belongs to all English-speakers. Heaney's cultural reclamation has done more than recycle the same problem of exclusive ownership. Foregrounding the Irish perspective in English literature was not an aggressive repossession, but an invitation for others to try to crack the monopoly. Thankfully, Heaney keeps from falling into the same old trap: His cultural reclamation stakes out land for more than just one ethnic group, marking it off emphatically as a public space...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Who Owns Beowulf? | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...offer them a deal. The illegals describe their ex-employers' operation and return with shotguns and masks to rob the place with members of the gang. The debt is then canceled. "Local police are usually stumped, but we know exactly what happens," says Ong. "It has become a nationwide problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaves Of New York | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...boys on favored-nation status for China, or she once called Newt Gingrich a fat boy and voted against re-electing him Speaker in 1997, or, most likely, because she rails against special-interest money, which is like being in the Mafia and saying you've got a problem with the loan sharking. Whatever, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has withheld most of the $540,000 they could have given Smith, and news of this has angered people into sending money directly to her. It has also shamed Republican leaders into throwing Smith a $100,000 bone last week. Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unconventional Fight | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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