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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCormack, who first displayed his Confederate flag in February from a window facing the Quad, replaced that flag last Monday with an American flag. McCormack had originally hung the Confederate flag shortly after Briget L. Kerrigan '91 displayed a similar flag from a window in her Kirkland suite. Kerrigan continues to hang her Confederate flag...

Author: By Suruchi Chandra, | Title: As One Flag Comes Down, Issue Remains | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...American, I only had one window and I wanted an American flag," McCormack says...

Author: By Suruchi Chandra, | Title: As One Flag Comes Down, Issue Remains | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...have been distant at best, attacked the book as "trash and fiction." She specifically disputed one episode: Barbara Bush did not, as the book relates, give Nancy Reagan a white vine wreath one Christmas -- a wreath Nancy supposedly had gift-wrapped and sent to a friend in California. Every window at the White House, the current First Lady pointed out, already has a wreath at Christmastime. "If you're going to make up a story," she said, "you can make up a better one than that." Nancy called Barbara Bush last week to thank her for the comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Lady And the Slasher | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...Room in Weld Hall: Check out the cracks in the window frames. A continual blast of icy air flows through the walls here, keeping the entire dormitory in subarctic conditions. One particularly cold morning in January--I swear I am not making this up--I woke up to find that my shampoo had frozen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tourist Guide for Pre-Frosh | 4/20/1991 | See Source »

...studio she could be harsh. She spoke in a whisper that was louder than a shout. On occasion she laughed heartily at her students' efforts. "With Martha," Richard Boone once said, "you get it right away or jump out the window." Glen Tetley, a protege in the 1950s, went on to become a ballet choreographer. Just before his first major premiere, he developed crippling back spasms; no one else knew his role. Graham solved the problem. Spying him in a cafeteria, she walked over and slapped his face hard. "You stand up there and go out and dance," she commanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deity of Modern Dance: Martha Graham: 1894-1991 | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

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