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...seniors reclining in Sanders' balcony, pondering Kant's thoughts on a free market for women's eggs, and then there is the 20 year-old Friedrich Schelling writing to Hegel. "We must take philosophy further! Kant has destroyed everything; but how is everyone to notice? You would have to crush it to bits before their eyes to make it tangible to them!" Or the 19 year-old Marx who, upon reading Hegel, wrote to his father, "There are moments in one's life which are like frontier posts marking the completion of a period but at the same time indicating...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Core Classes Lack Depth | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...burden of expense and responsibility with the refiners." The automakers' joy is inconsequential, of course, when compared with the joy of sedan drivers everywhere: At last, owners of SUVs will be brought into line with everyone else. Now if only they could be made safe enough not to crush poor little Hyundais...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUVs Set to Get a Kick Up the Tailpipe | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...clashes with overseas regulators, who have long suspected the company of attempting to Coca-Colonize the planet. In one confrontation last spring, the European Community forced Coke to scale back its $1.85 billion purchase of the foreign rights to Cadbury Schweppes beverage brands, which prevented the company from marketing Crush, Dr Pepper and Canada Dry in Europe. That took the fizz out of one-quarter of the company's global sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Springing A Leak | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

This time, however, Duehay came "bounding through the door. 'My God, he's got a crush on a volunteer!'" Brennan remembers thinking...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Honors Duehay for 36 Years of Service | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...wonderful story about a woman (Mia Farrow, in a role no one else could have played) whose deadened upper-crust marriage threatens to crush her until she discovers the power of her imagination, courtesy of a mysterious doctor. Along the way, they are some psychedelic sequences involving invisibility and flying. The liberation of Farrows character is mostly handled with nimble comedy, but its also serious enough to prove that Allens movies arent hopelessly mired in misogyny...

Author: By Edwin Rosenberg, | Title: Woody's Overlooked Gems | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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