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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office does not seem to have any clear definition that makes it relevant to the campus. Hopefully, next year will be different. Of the six candidates for the vice-presidency of the council, Samuel C. Cohen '00 emerges as the one with the background and vision necessary to transform the office into an effective tool for executing the will of the students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cohen for Vice-President | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...Everyone should get some technical background.... If you can't get a position in your field, if you have technical knowlege, it may help you down the line," she said...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Grad Job Market Best in Years | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

Many of these ideas came from M2, MTV 's all-video station, and MuchMusic, the Canadian equivalent of MTV. MuchMusic's window-lined Toronto studio inspired MTV's new Times Square set, which with its pool-playing and dart-throwing staff members shuffling around in the background, looks like your parents' basement if you didn't have parents. And, like the new MTV, the station broadcasts live and focuses on music. Not everything the Canadian service does has been imported, however. MuchMusic features a wide-screen video booth, where young Canadians seem to have a penchant for exposing themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THE M IS BACK IN MTV | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...looking for people with financial services and technology background [for our Tokyo office]," says Neal Bruce, a representative from Ernst and Young Management Consulting...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Downturn in Japanese Economy Constrains Employment Prospects for Students, Alumni | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...nature of description. Poetry goes on. "The immense poetry of war and the poetry of a work of imagination are two different things," Stevens had said in 1942, and from this "struggle with fact" hoped to distill some poignant truth. The Collected Poems and Prose editors grant this background a sentence in the chronology, nothing more. Placed in the continuum of verse, "Description" loses this crucial opposition and flounders for reference...

Author: By Matthew R. Daniels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Hard-Bound 'Collected' Wallace Stevens Fits Nicely on Shelf | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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