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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from non-Harvardians how the hardest thing about Harvard is getting in, especially because you always happen to hear it just after you pulled your second all-nighter and you still can't improve your solid C+ in Chem 20. For most, the difficulty in Harvard lies in getting either an A or a C, since both require rather extreme study habits. Come Commencement, practically no one will know anyone who failed out of Harvard...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, | Title: The Real Purpose of Harvard | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...weird to go to uc-vote and see my name as the only name there," Wathington said. "Maybe it's [because of] a distrust in the U.C. or a general apathy on campus. In either case...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Write-In Candidates Take Advantage of Sparse Field in Council Elections | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...either love them or hate them," says Bill Kimpton of Schrager's work. He's a former investment banker whose $400 million-a-year, 28-property boutique chain is one of a host of competitors, large and small, who are out to spoil Schrager's good time. Kimpton caters to less image-conscious business travelers who still prize a little personality, including free tarot-card readings, back rubs or goldfish. The San Francisco-based dynamo is establishing a growing national presence, converting bank buildings and department stores in places like Denver and Portland into small, Euro-style hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where It's Chic To Sleep | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...that this is the same Barry Scheck who convincingly argued in the O.J. Simpson trial that DNA samples can be contaminated and made useless (or at least open to "reasonable doubt") as scientific evidence in a criminal trial. Through his own arguments, we are left with two possible conclusions: either Scheck is freeing potentially guilty people through the Innocence Project, or he successfully defended a double murderer he knew to be guilty. I don't know whether to laud this man or deplore him. JEFFREY M. LLEWELLYN Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...constantly checking ourselves for phoniness, irony forces us either to think more closely about how we feel or to joke honestly about the fact that we feel nothing. I'm worried that in the post-ironic world of Rosie O'Donnell, people suppress so much of their emotions that they believe they love Tom Cruise and peg their audience with Koosh balls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Irony | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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