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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever wonder why so many students get up at 5 a.m. only to throw themselves at the mercy of the cold, polluted Charles River? The mysterious allure of rowing is the subject of Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing, a new book by Craig Lambert '69. However, a fully satisfactory answer to this question is not to be found in this book. Lambert sets out to make the ordinary extraordinary and winds up doing so in an ordinary way. The book is an autobiographical account of his rowing career, which he extends into life lessons...

Author: By Leah A. Plunkett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crew Is Life; The Rest Is Just Details | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

Chucky's girl (pre-Barbie-izing) is played by the breasts of the breathtakingly talentless and Academy-Award-nominated Jennifer Tilly. Whoever made the decision to cast the most annoying voice in movies in a mostly vocal role ought to be subject to Ms. Tilly's audio-book recording of the Complete Oxford English Dictionary...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: GET LUCKY: SEE `CHUCKY' | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...Until schools are equal, we have to continue affirmative action," Nicole P. Saffold '02 said. "I get riled up over this subject...

Author: By Katherine S. Currie, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MSA Joins Affirmative Action Day | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...your heart to forgive the occasional trite phrase, such as "El Paso receded from view, and with it his hopes and dreams." It may take a few chapters, or longer, to accept the fact that, yes, tennis really is being used to deal with this hugely serious subject...

Author: By Melissa Gniadek, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tennis as Metaphor For Healing and Loss | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

...that was that. Top Justice Department attorney David Boies accused Microsoft of trying to "change the facts and change the subject." Indeed, nothing in the Clark mail foreshadows what the feds and Barksdale say occurred at the later meeting -- that is, Bill Gates' heavy-handed insistence that Microsoft and Netscape divide up the browser market between them. It's almost as if Bill Clinton had decided to introduce evidence of other philandering presidents into an impeachment inquiry -- interesting, perhaps even mitigating, but ultimately irrelevant. Microsoft's attorneys would like to throw the spotlight on equally dubious business practices elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Gets a Lift | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

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