Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both iconography and content, the new compilation admits what anyone might have realized: for years, Springsteen has been more retrospective than productive. Each of Tracks' four disks spans a period in Springsteen's recording life: but while the first three albums cover the years 1973-1987, the final 11 years of Springsteen's recording history are condensed onto a single album--mostly containing songs recorded in or before 1992--which is encased in a jacket whose cover shows, in blue-tint monochrome, a rearview mirror and the roadside behind...
...that their child will daydream his future away, demand the drug, and if refused, go off to find a more cooperative physician. Some parents feel pressured to medicate their child just so that his behavior will conform a bit more to other children's, even if they are quite content with their child's conduct--quirks, tantrums...
...empirical and intellectual vigor, the Harvard education most receive is utterly empty in normative content. The emphasis of education here rests on how and where to acquire knowledge, not where to apply it or to what end. Social justice becomes an issue relegated to optional extracurricular activities such as PBHA and ethnic groups to address...
...White House, meanwhile, where sex used to be the worst temptation, these days it's triumphalism. Some Clinton aides, not content with saving their boss from death row, want Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to work harder to make sure the whole mess dies this week or next...
...over the Internet is about to take on a whole new shape. Negotiations are still under way, but service-and-content behemoth America Online looks set to snap up Netscape in a $4 billion all-stock deal Monday. Sun Microsystems, also involved in the talks, would take over Netscape's server-end software; AOL would run the popular Netcenter portal and keep the browser itself in safe hands. Right now, AOL has an exclusive contract with Microsoft to distribute Internet Explorer to its 14 million subscribers; that agreement may expire on January 1, 1999. A deal to divide Netscape with...