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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But instead of a happily percolating E-mail culture, what had evolved was a behavioral nightmare. "It was a disaster," he says. "My managers were getting 200 to 300 E-mails a day each. People were so enamored of it they weren't talking to each other. They were hibernating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOST IN THE E-MAIL | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Your quotation from Susanna Kirk '95-'97 was clearly taken out of context from a shocked and upset victim of a horrible circumstance. Her statements were never intended to be taken literally, much less quoted. As a witness to your interviewer's obvious inexperience and horrible interrogation of Ms. Kirk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Doesn't Report With Compassion | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

This recklessness was further demonstrated by your photographer's request to photograph the burnt room, or at least the rubble from the fire thrown out the window. Yes, people want to see and know. The Crimson is a newspaper and must report the truth. But, it is a campus newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Doesn't Report With Compassion | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

Don't these folks know they're fox-trotting on the edge of a volcano? No, of course not. They never do. But we do. We've been partying with their heedless ilk on the eve of disaster since we started going to the movies. We know that when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE ROAD TOO WELL TRAVELED | 4/14/1997 | See Source »

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