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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), which Greenspan has studied intently. During long nights at Rand's apartment and through her articles and letters, Greenspan found in objectivism a sense that markets are an expression of the deepest truths about human nature and that, as a result, they will ultimately be correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Three Marketeers | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...that is not the correct interpretation. Ancient interpreters (otherwise known as baby boomers) figured that "Love Me Do" meant "please love me," only the word "do" was used because it rhymes with "true" in the line "You know I'll be true." Ah, those Liverpudlians were so clever...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: Paul McCartney Said It Best | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

Knowing full well that UC admissions procedures are governed by Proposition 209, the regents desire to send a signal to correct the opinion among some California racial minorities that the UC system does not want them. "We have tainted ourselves, rightly or wrongly, that we are adverse to diversity," regent William Bagle said. Carnesale chooses not to waste his time such fruitless symbolic gestures...

Author: By Adam R. Kovacevich, | Title: Showing His Spine | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...stop Princeton's offence is entirelyopposite your instincts," Delaney-Smith said. "Ifyou are on the weak side and you jump to the balllow, that's when they hit you with back screens orcut backdoor on you. You have to work a lotdefensively to jump at the correct angles, oryou're going to get screwed...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Basketball Splits, Stays Alive in Ivies | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...these years, may have solved a pair of lingering medical mysteries: where the dominant form of the AIDS virus originated in the animal world, and how it made the deadly leap to humans. More than brilliant scientific detective work, the Alabama research, if it turns out to be correct, could lead to new treatments and possibly even a cure for a fatal disease that afflicts more than 35 million people around the globe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Chimpanzee | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

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