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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Great American Budget Battle, Washington's answer to professional wrestling, has officially begun, all roars and growls and theatrical blows to the head. This week Congress will send the President a $792 billion tax-cut bill; he has promised to stomp on it. Clinton has pushed a $300 billion spending program, including a new prescription-drug program for Medicare; congressional fists are already clenched. There is talk of grand ideological warfare, of reckless spendthrift Democrats and reckless plutocrat-loving Republicans fighting over how to divvy up the glorious $3 trillion surplus. In this season's budget politics, much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phantom Surplus | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...important reason for its graduates' success is the multiple chances to network. Associate Director Jeremy A. M. Evans says students are able to talk to one another and to professionals at meals, question-and-answer sessions, breaks and the course's "sherry hour...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Keeping the Maiden Name | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Entertainment is not the answer. The effects of StudentU.com do not call for any fanfare by means of trivia games, celebrity appearances or gorgeous blondes handing out the day's lecture guidelines at the lecture hall's back doors. But professors need to provide for their students something more than what can be condensed into a few pages of notes. Inspiration, awe, frustration, outrage--whatever the reaction, there must be an emotional relationship between the professor and the student created by the experience in the lecture hall...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: Making Lectures More than Notes | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...Would the West have put ground troops in Bosnia if Russia was still a communist state?" Major asked. "The answer is, we would...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spirited Major Calls for Caution | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

...getting bigger as the growing variety of listed items attracts more buyers, which in turns attracts more sellers. How to fight the network effect, a rule that says networks ?- be they made up of fax machines, e-mail or online auctions ?- become exponentially more useful with more users? The answer is simple ?- with a network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Auction Network to Challenge eBay | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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