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...other day a friend of mine was clearing out his attic, and he came across a copy of a 1967 newspaper called the World Journal Tribune. Its name was an amalgam of three defunct New York City newspapers, each of which had possessed a sharply defined identity. But by the time they morphed into the World Journal Tribune, its identity was as meaningless as its name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Is Big Really Bad? Well, Yes | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...What characters, indeed. Like their real-life analogs, they know how to live their lives because they've seen them written out onscreen by soft-handed civilians like Chase. (Memo to the DeCavalcantes, by the way: Sorry, but--and we mean no disrespect--Chase actually drew on a now defunct family from his youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: They Pull You Back In | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

Weisinger says it was easy for the group to gain official recognition from the University because the current HAPA members were simply reviving a defunct student group...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Half-Asian Students Create A Club of Their Own | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...June 1995 a rudimentary website had been created on a hidden site www.amazon.com:99 now defunct), and 300 friends and family members were sworn to secrecy and invited to crash-test it. "The first time I saw the site, I said to myself, 'Wow, this is it,'" recalls Shaw. It was simple, functional and wonderful. Kaphan's code was incredibly elegant and streamlined, allowing pages to be delivered without delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Officially, RUS no longer has any students of its own to govern. Without funds from the now defunct $5 term bill fee charged to undergraduate women, the future of RUS seemed tentative at best...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre and Lisa B. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Women's Groups to Kick Off First RUS Initiative | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

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