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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theory is that our athletic indifference stems from the increasing prominence of extracurricular activities, a trend that has taken attention away from our teams. Others have suggested that many of us don't have any school spirit, either because were too embarrassed or too cynical to be rooting for Fair Harvard. And, of course, it could be that students are just too busy...
...thing we have to move away from in Cambridge is the sense that there are better schools and worse schools, that it's a lottery you either win or you lose," says Alice Turkel...
...slacking underachiever. But since he's our new television critic, it means he's on the job. Since joining the magazine in July, he has been busy screening pilots for the new fall season. "I like shows that aim high. They're more interesting if they are either outrageously bad or outrageously good, as opposed to competently reliable," he says. This week, in addition to reviewing the new show Once and Again, he writes about personal video recorders, which some analysts maintain may change the way we watch TV and the way television pays for itself...
...landed a job at Oracle, one of the Valley's blue-chip firms. Two years later, he quit to take a job at a hot start-up called CrossWorlds Software. Had he stayed at Oracle, "I would have made a lot of money. Not multimillions, but not pocket change either." Kaushik left CrossWorlds after a year--the company has yet to have its IPO--to start his own dot.com with three friends. "I thought starting my own company would complete my contribution to the world and my profession," he says. But after three months of trying to raise funds, Kaushik...
HEAR YE Removing a youngster's tonsils and adenoids for recurring ear infections is traumatic enough--and it may not do much good either. In most cases, the surgery results in just a slight reduction in the number of new infections--and only for the first year after the procedure...