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...would never want to abandon our customers," Savin said, "But we were pretty sure they will still have a lot of opportunities to shop at Express...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staying Afloat in Harvard Square | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

Some of Harvard graduate schools have entertained the possibility of moving to Allston. But, despite the space crunch, Newman says she does not see a reason for the entire school to abandon its courtyard buildings and move across the river...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller and Keramet A. Reiter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Space Crunch | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...sure, the mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of fatalistic work ethic in evidence throughout, but in this lonesome congregation titles like "Take It Down," "Take It Back" and "Lift Every Stone" are exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Down the House | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...lost his battle for reelection - and lost badly, even according to his own count. But now he's challenging his opponents to a battle in the streets to claim their prize. After a triumphant opposition rally in Belgrade Wednesday night at which some 200,000 Serbs demanded that Milosevic abandon his plans to force a runoff vote on October 8, the strongman's electoral commission announced early Thursday that its final results showed opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica with 48.96 percent of the vote compared with Milosevic's 38.62 percent - and ordered the runoff poll because Kostunica had failed to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic to Arm-Wrestle for the Presidency? | 9/28/2000 | See Source »

...This election year, despite all the negative rhetoric directed at soft money, the parties are not only knee-deep in the stuff, they're spending it with abandon. The Brennan Center study reveals unprecedented cash flow from party coffers into advertising: Between June 1 and September 20, the parties spent upwards of $52 million on commercials, versus the campaigns, which paid around $21 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Squishing Noise Is the Sound of Soft Money | 9/28/2000 | See Source »

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