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...filled out the census short form, and--though I don't want to boast--I finished it in 3 min. flat. The reduction-in-paperwork instructions said it would take 10 min. for an average person to complete. How did the Census Bureau calculate its estimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...would join the Hasty Pudding Club because of its connections to the Hasty Pudding Show," he tells FM, after long contemplation. "In retrospect, my participation with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals was clearly the most important non-academic activity in my Harvard experience." Although the club and the theatricals boast a good working relationship, their ties are tenuous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Pudding is Dead...long live the pudding? | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...there will be plenty of competition for your eyeballs. AtomFilms' main rival, the six-month-old iFilm.com puts up just about every movie that comes in--about five a day. With 500 movies on the site, iFilm can boast at least one breakthrough. Dave Garrett and Jason Ward made the nine-minute "comedy" Sunday's Game, in which five old ladies gather around a bridge table and gab about their infirmities while passing around a gun in a game of Russian roulette that gets funnier and funnier as the blood stains more and more of the tablecloth. Last month they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Napster, the most popular of these software clients, has been downloaded more than 5 million times, causing its parent company's CEO, Eileen Richardson, to boast, "We're the fastest-growing company in the history of the Web." Gnutella, an open-source variant of Napster created by ex-hacker and current AOL employee Justin Frankel, 21, caused a buzz last week when AOL scurried to pull the software, calling it "an unauthorized free-lance project." AOL is planning to merge with Time Warner, a major player in the music industry. But by the time AOL yanked Gnutella, enough copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Free Juke Box | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

Also, Harvard will have its full arsenal at the disposal of Coach Tom Wilson. The Crimson had previously been handicapped by crucial injuries to Micomonaco and sophomore outside hitter Justin Denham, but will boast a healthy roster in California...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Sports Takes No Spring Break | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

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