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Dates: during 1990-1999
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David L. Evans, a senior admissions officer, views the situation more starkly, likening the job of an admissions officer to that of a "card counter in Vegas...

Author: By Jason M. Goins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Early Action Admits Increase Again | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...grandfather's grave, the latest McCain, in a line dating back to the Revolutionary War, to march from training to combat to valor and into the ground at Arlington. It would be a day of two ceremonies. That afternoon McCain signed his final discharge papers, turned in his identification card and wore his uniform for the last time. "It seemed to me that I was disconnected from my previous life," he says of that day. "I was concerned whether I would be able to continue their tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Power and The Story | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...sounded stale. "McCain was the first senior American politician to say that what the Russians are doing is genocide," says former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. "It was a gutsy call, and he called it just right." It was more than good timing. While campaign finance is his calling card, foreign affairs is McCain's intellectual passion. Flashing his foreign-policy credentials has become a crucial tactic, because it reminds audiences of his heroic past as well as the advantages he holds over Bush in expertise and experience. After delivering a wide-ranging foreign-policy speech in Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Foreign Policy: Where McCain Hits Bush The Hardest | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...made for this. Honorifics are basically dead. The idea of agonizing over "Ms." seems quaint because the idea of calling anybody "Mister" or "Missus" or indeed anything other than "Hey, you" has faded away. Go into Abercrombie & Fitch, and the teenage sales clerks read your name off your credit card like you were both going to Riverdale High together...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Don't Be Rude | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...clue may be that one of the credit cards stolen from Matthews after Stuckey's release was used at South Station just hours after the robbery. The card was reported stolen, but when police responded, the culprit was gone...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: UCLA Security Captures Yard Burglar Suspect | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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