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...Swedish friend remarked to me that she found American college students to be more emotionally dependent on their parents than their European counterparts. However, going off to college is akin to a rite of passage in American culture, marking the beginning of a transformation from a dependent child to an independent one and rapidly thereafter to an adult...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Joe (and Chelsea) College | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

Although the thought of Democrats like Alves looking elsewhere may seem akin to the Red Sox playing in Yankee uniforms, some say there is a simple explanation...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bay State Democrats Search the Party's Soul | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...could be paid much, much less to create actors who would give infinitely malleable performances while never demanding gross points or throwing hissies? Or take it a step further: What if Marilyn Monroe, say, could be digitally returned from the dead--and without the neuroses? Is this ghoulish? Something akin to playing God? Well, maybe. And maybe Marilyn could have made Striptease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAVE GIGABYTES, WILL ACT | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...easy to get comfortable with, but if what happened to a noble creature like the swordfish was the fate of a land-based mammal of equal esteem, it would be headline news and somebody would be in jail. Thanks for dragging the news out of the depths. BILL AKIN Montauk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 1, 1997 | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

...rambling rhetoric, Brimmer is as precise and exacting as the cut of his charcoal-gray suit. He took immediate action last week, firing three department chiefs and threatening that more heads will roll unless changes are made. Still, some are skeptical of his ability to tackle a job akin to fixing a plane while flying it. "I can't predict the outcome, but I can predict the effort," Brimmer says. "It will be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER ON THE POTOMAC: HOW NOT TO RUN A CITY | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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