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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free deck of cards so that when they get bored they can play solitaire. Not going to happen, right? But if you give everyone on the sales force a $2,000 computer, you know they're going to play some solitaire because it's the second or third most common program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quarterly Business Report: Do Computers Really Save Money? | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...songs from film soundtracks inevitably surface as a particular season's Love Song. Be it sentimental (Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" from Armageddon), bitter and/or vengeful (Mary J. Blige's "I'm Not Gonna Cry" from Waiting to Exhale) or, most common of all, composed by Bryan Adams (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves's "Everything I Do [I Do it For You]," Don Juan DeMarco's "[Have You Ever] Really Loved a Woman?"), these Love Songs dominate radio play-lists and often surpass their related movies in popularity. Indeed, how many of last year's senior...

Author: By Frankie J. Petrosino, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Girl' a Strangely Upbeat Torture | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Some of the sensibility common to the work ofthe New York School poets was learned from thevisual arts, Abstract Expressionism in particular,and much of the work Koch read at the SignetTuesday evening exhibited what Robert Creeley hascalled "that lovely, usefully uncluttereddirectness of perception" shared between New Yorkpainting and New York poetry. Following a verynice introduction by Signet president ScottRothkopf '99, he took his seat at the front of alovely, ornate old room in the Signet Societybuilding, and, sipping occasionally from a glassof Coke, read for nearly an hour, following thatdirectness of perception through poems fromseveral of his recent works...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Poet Koch Enjoys 'Unnoticed Popularity' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Wilson pointed out that there are manyopportunities for female undergraduates, but manystudents simply choose not to take advantage ofresources like the Lyman Common Room and Radclifferesearch partnerships...

Author: By Andrew K. Mandel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Radcliffe Tour Shares, Learns Little in D.C. | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...those who occupy the few structures should not be chastised for their blessing. And they shouldn't be expected to let everyone in the door. After all the practice of exclusivity in the social gathering is common to everyone. I know quiet a few cliques which would not feel comfortable letting a random football player intrude on their parties. We can hope but we cannot fairly expect that a club will be nice to strangers knocking on its doors...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: The Postures Of Punch Season | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

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