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...high rate of correspondence on the lists is a drawback for some. "The level of usage during the [fall] book sale was so high that a lot of people got off of the list," Hoffpauir says, noting that in an average week she receives as many as 40 list-wide messages...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Dawn Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Treading the 'Bleeding Edge' | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...around the Yard, all sophomores in and around the Quad. This would require some renovation/construction to fit everyone. This system would make housing over the lifetime of the Harvard student more equitable, at a rather great cost--it would cut down on interaction between sophomores, juniors and seniors. Another drawback is denying the rights of those who (however strangely) like to live in the Quad; but we do kick people out of the Yard after a year, so the were policy would fly with these folk...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: The Death of the Houses | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...drawback however, is that when walking down the street with one of these ear-pieces in place, the phone user appears to be a wannabe member of the C.I.A. or is hearkening back to a youthful Spytech fervor. Since the earpieces are hard to see, and cell phone talkers already have a propensity to yell, it often looks as if these people are screaming at themselves while strolling through the Yard. Exacerbating the situation even more are the exaggerated hand motions that some talkers make with their newly freed hands...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Latest Cell Technology | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...only drawback of starting modeling at such a young age, Emmy says, is that her entire life is now documented on film. She remembers the disappointment of her ads and TV appearances gradually going out of style. Soon after a photo shoot she did in high school, Emmy says, ithe supercool eZ. Cavsi I was wearing in the film mysteriously went out of style. Now thereis a permanent image of me on tape in early 90is fashion complete with braces,i she recalls. To have those igrowing painsi scrutinized by the rest of the world was often difficult, Emmy says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fm dial | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...equivalent of an artist's sketchbook--it contains an array of self-contained and varying ideas--rather than a fully flushed-out concept album. Hutchence was obviously allowed significant creative license to experiment with different textures, because there are scarcely two tracks that sound similar, which is hardly a drawback. Heavily distorted guitars are on assault on the opening track "Let Me Show You," but are immediately contrasted with ethereal and richly textured multi-layered sonics on the ballad "Possibilities." Radio ready hits jostle for space with heavily funk-influenced grooves, as do rolling rhythm and blues beats...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hutchence: Australian for 'This Rocks' | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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