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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Companies are clearly being duplicitous in posting warnings they expect no one to follow. If the material is for research only, why is the student supplied not with notes but with a polished, fully-edited final product? Such contradictions abound because the business of selling term papers and research is sleazy. Buyers and sellers both undermine the educational system, allowing some students to buy their diplomas and cheapening the work produced by everyone else...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Term Paper Mills Over Internet | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Waco works hard to humanize the Branch Davidians, but spends most of its energies condemning the behavior of the ATF. Conspiracies abound as the film jumps from one facet of the conflict to another. This non-linear progression highlights the worst errors...

Author: By Jeremy J. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Burning Down the House: A Reassessment of the Waco Tragedy | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Those thesaurus-enhanced sentences scarcely sound pretentious when compared to Delbanco's generous use of allusion. References to virtually everything abound--"Leave It To Beaver," imaginary numbers and most classical composers are just a few of the staggering number of items mentioned. Delbanco likes allusions in English, but he loves them in foreign languages. Most European tongues are represented in Old Scores, had the book been any longer Delbanco would have had to use some non-Western quotes for variety. Rather than adding to the texture of the book, they merely provide a superficial veneer of erudition...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not Like That Book by Nabokov: 'Scores' Less of a Draw, More a Loss | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...audience learns of the incest, it is revealed that Mr. Pascal disappeared inexplicably on November 22, 1963--at precisely the same second that Kennedy was shot. Did the Pascal family carry their Kennedy obsession too far and kill him? Or is it just one of the many coincidences that abound in the House of Yes? We never quite find out, but we never stop guessing...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Take a Pillbox Hat and a Social Taboo... | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...main figures in a geisha's life are all female. Even during the evening, while seemingly enthralled with the men she is with, a geisha is likely to be secretly worrying about a catty rivalry with some other geisha rather than about the men themselves. Conflict and backstabbing abound...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Making of a Geisha and Life in an Okiya | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

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