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...cost truly was a limiting factor, Harvard still had a tremendous opportunity to install cable at huge savings when it installed high-bandwidth Internet lines. No doubt there was clamoring for cable in the early ’90s when all the work on the University network took place. Even way back then people wanted their wars televised and electric rotisseries available for purchase right from their living rooms. Yet when all the wiring was complete, there was not a new cable outlet to be found...
Beck’s last album, Midnite Vultures, an ironic trumpet-blaring parade of sex-funk and Prince send ups, wasn’t just another surprise milestone for America’s greatest sonic scientist—it was a worthy document of late 90s exuberance. Beck’s new album, Sea Change, is also telling of its time, fueled as it is by the kind of regretful, sober sensations that come after the big party has ended. But having reportedly broken up with his long-time girlfriend last year, the man has his personal reasons to sing...
With the Ivy League’s recent reduction of annual football recruits from 35 to 30 this past summer and the overall trimming of football squads since the mid-90s, Harvard and its competition are being forced to recruit differently. Harvard coach Tim Murphy has noted that the recruiting process has changed as a result of the cutbacks...
...Navy, where he gained his first merchandising experience as a supply officer during the Vietnam War. He made his mark at P&G overseeing the successful launch of Liquid Tide in 1984, and made an even bigger impression during his three-year stint in Asia in the mid-'90s, building the company's now booming business in China almost from the ground up and resuscitating its faltering cosmetics business in Japan...
...what about Philipson's own work habits? "I was totally married to my job," she says. "For most of the '90s, I was working about 55 hours a week. I realized, in part from listening to my patients, that my life wasn't that different from theirs." She reduced her work hours to 26 a week. "It really made me confront how I wanted to live my life. I had to reconnect." Is she happier now? "I'm getting married soon--to a man, rather than...