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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After five, or eight, years of hard, yeoman service to Harvard, these once promising young scholars are tossed out of our community to fend for themselves, their careers treated like so many soiled tissues upon which America's future leaders have cut their intellectual teeth...

Author: By Orlando Patterson, | Title: Sociology is Sufficient | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

...physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head off on 111 different projects around the world, taking molds of baboon teeth in Ethiopia, protecting endangered sea- turtle eggs in the Caribbean and monitoring volcanoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Challenges For Earth | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...been helpful to Jess, but sometimes I've been a pain in the ass, and she will say, 'Leave me alone! Let me do it my way! I can't play your part; don't you try to play mine.' We work differently. When Jessie gets her teeth into something, she is totally obsessed by it. We will go home at night after a rehearsal, and I will be so tired that I will say, 'Oh, please, God, show me to my bed and let me forget about it until tomorrow morning.' Then I will hear her still rehearsing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUME CRONYN and JESSICA TANDY: Two Lives, One Ambition | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...face, the Rosty tax plan looks like something that would make George Bush's lips tremble and his teeth clench. But White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater refused all opportunities to deep-six it. "We don't want to pour too much cold water on a plan we may want to swim around in for a while," he said. The water was warm enough for Bush to pick up the phone and call his old friend -- the two served together on Ways and Means during the late 1960s -- and thank the chairman for his suggestion. He praised Rostenkowski for trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deja Voodoo? Dan Rostenkowski proposes a grand budget compromise | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

Leverett resident Patricia M. Keane '90 said that she has a Poland Springs water dispenser in her room because House Master John E. Dowling '57 "said that he won't clean biological instruments with Cambridge water, so I won't clean my teeth with...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Harvard Avoids Tainted Water | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

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