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...Ultimately, when the dust from this intergalactic name-calling slugfest settles, the fact remains: both Star Wars and Star Trek are awesome. Both are excellent and well-made, both carry good themes and good messages, both boast strong characters and strong storylines. Both are wildly successful, and both deserve all the respect in the world...

Author: By Richard Ho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Face Off: Trekkers v. Lucasites | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...intellectual hatred." For Trench Coat Mafia members no less than ethnic cleansers, hatred becomes an object of intense study, a major, a creed. There is pleasure in it, in being on the outs with society. The boys form a Nazi fan club. They pick up enough German to boast, "Ich bin ein Auslander." They are in it by being out of it, and now all that remains is to eradicate the insiders so that out becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Works of the Trench Coat | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Though the Big Green boast the experience of a five-senior roster, Harvard's top-to-bottom talent and promising youth have sustained its April run. The surprisingly strong play of freshman William Lee against Yale and previous Ivy League opponents has added depth to the Crimson lineup...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Closes League Play Against Dartmouth | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

Harvard looks to continue its unbeaten Ivy streak this Friday in its final home match of the season against Brown and again on Sunday against Yale, who boast what is probably the third strongest team in the Ivies...

Author: By Amy E. Ooten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Crushes Penn, Princeton | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...from the junctures of a beam to the cladding to the door handles comes out of the same relentless aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating as the great inverted cone sheathed in 360 mirrors that floods the Reichstag with daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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