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...according to Shim, the new WTF club is distinct from the others in its style and its form...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Art of the Ax Kick: the World Taekwondo Federation | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Still, the fact that a relationship between Angela and Lester seems a distinct (and perhaps even worthy) possibility is shocking for a movie that is ostensibly mainstream. In many respects, for that matter, this film is unusual in its refusal to play by the rules of Hollywood filmmaking: demolishing the boundaries between adult problems and adolescent fears, and, most significantly, declining to impose any code of morals over its characters' behavior. This is the first movie I have seen in a long time (well, at least since Go) that makes drug dealing seem like an upwardly mobile profession...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Name of the Rose | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

When seniors entered their Houses, there was one non-randomized class in residency and the Houses' distinct personalities were still evident...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What First-years Should Know: Just three years ago, Harvard was a different College | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...exciting to work with people across the country," Sanberg said. "Each state has distinct needs, but there are some things that unite everyone...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sanberg Elected Chair of College Dems National Council | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

Within explicit, or declarative, memory, on the other hand, there are specific subsystems that handle shapes, textures, sounds, faces, names--even distinct systems to remember nouns vs. verbs. All of these different types of memory are ultimately stored in the brain's cortex, within its deeply furrowed outer layer--a component of the brain dauntingly more complex than comparable parts in lesser species. Experts in brain imaging are only beginning to understand what goes where, and how the parts are reassembled into a coherent whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart Genes? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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