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Beneath the sturdy British accent with which he articulated the distinct "Morgan philosophy," Mendoza slipped quips mocking the firm's "gripping" recruiting presentation and one of his own past trysts...

Author: By Richard M. Burnes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Future Financiers Flock to a Darwinian Fete | 9/23/1997 | See Source »

While America is not the only country that sends its children away to school, the American college experience is unique. Each of the four years may be seen as a distinct developmental stage: the first year is an exploratory and overwhelming one, one in which previous flirtations with independence become realities; sophomore year is a trying one in which one's true self struggles to emerge, and legitimate interests are supposed to materialize; by junior year, college as such has lost its novelty and has simply and welcomely become life; and by senior year, as a friend told...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: Joe (and Chelsea) College | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...archaeologists are prepared to go that far. But there is now enough evidence for a scientific consensus that ancient Nubia, beginning in the Stone Age, developed its own distinct civilization--or rather, a series of overlapping civilizations--influenced by Africa, Arabia and the Sahara as well as by Egypt. Moreover, many scholars believe these Nubian kingdoms hold even more clues to the origins of African culture than does Egypt, which, because of its unique position abutting Asia and the Mediterranean, is regarded by many archaeologists as having developed independently from the rest of the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NILE'S OTHER KINGDOM | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...space that once echoed with the clash of silverware and first-year conversations is now divided into four distinct areas...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Airy Barker Center Replaces Union | 9/10/1997 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: The exhaustive investigation into former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy has been an embarrassment for Janet Reno in both its aggressive methods and its distinct lack of results. But after almost three years and untold millions of dollars, independent counsel Donald Smaltz has finally netted the big one: an indictment of Espy himself for 39 counts of illegally soliciting and accepting gifts, trips, sports tickets, and other favors totaling $35,000 ? from companies over which he, as USDA head, had regulatory power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grand jury indicts ex-Cabinet Member | 8/27/1997 | See Source »

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