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Beleaguered Project ADAPT has hit yet another bump on the long and winding road towards updating the University’s administrative computer systems...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ADAPT Changes Software Provider | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...network execs blithely assumed that they didn't have much to lose in a strike, they're fooling themselves. (OK, so they probably are.) Even with the short-term bump in the networks' ratings compared with cable that followed "Millionaire," the overall trend is not in favor of the networks, which have steadily lost share to the rest of the zillion-channel universe, with no reason to expect to gain much back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV (Just Maybe) Saved the Writers from Themselves | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...Third, there may be a minor, artificial inflationary bump in 1973, when women’s grades were first included in the averages, since in those days women’s GPAs were appreciably higher than men’s. If so, that effect has long since disappeared...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, HARRY R. LEWIS | Title: The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...seasons in the Outback - the dry season and the wet season. This is the wet season," intoned Jeff Probst. "Why did you set up camp in a dry river bed?" (Probst, by the way, had an excellent episode, not only scoring with the good question - he'll bump Rather yet - but also making an uncredited appearance in a kangaroo suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On A Very Stormy 'Survivor,' the Placid One Goes Gently | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

...Elsewhere, however, Chinese leaders appear to be dropping broad hints to help their American counterparts find a way to give face without losing any. President Jiang, in comments reported over the weekend, likened the situation to an incident in which two people bump into one another on the sidewalk, in which it would be customary to say "Excuse me." (He used the phrase in English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Standoff: Lesser Apologies May Save the Day | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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